The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Always direct your emotions, desires, behaviour, and actions in the present so they are in alignment with what you want in your future.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

If there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it and of course, is my child okay?

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

We're dealing with character assassins. We're dealing with career assassins. That's who the media is today.