Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

I have never written anything sexually explicit.

You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.

E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

I wrapped a towel around me and I opened the door, and then I splish, splash, I jumped back in the bath. Well, how was I to know there was a party going on?

She runs up into the light surprised Her arms are opened Her mind's eye is Seeing things from a better side than most can dream

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.

This is L.A. You wanna learn Spanish? Take the bus.

As terrifying as sharks are, I find it far more terrifying, the idea of being trapped on the bottom of the ocean with a ticking clock and running out of air.

Journalism in America is dead. I've been saying it on the air since 2008.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.