Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true.

The most important time in life is the present.

I try not to look back on my career.

Communities do not let prostitutes, pedophiles, voyeurs, adulterers, and those who sexually prefer animals to publicly celebrate their lifestyles, so why should homosexuals get such privileges?

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.

Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today.

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

I would never have written it without you. (Erin) And I would never have lived without you. (V'Aiden)

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.