Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

USA Today hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.

My child reflect the treatment I give.

Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.