Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

Great thoughts by great people transform the World.

Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.

Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business