No objects of value ... are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are.

would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

Every moment of every day, your mind chooses whether you focus on the angelic or the demonic, on your life’s blessings or your tragedies, on the flashes of insight or the reminders of trouble.

Truth is a tendency.

I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England