Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

That is the consolation of a little mind you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.