Leadership is influence

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.

When we lose our spiritual child then that is when we have grown old.

Literature cannot be imposed it must be discovered.

This tree was a vast cylinder of wood. It filled the sky. The limbs reached out above me, a great canopy sheltering the rest of the trees, as if they were its children.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.

But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love