The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

What I love most about achieving whatever Ive achieved is that the Seattle Seahawks follow me on Twitter!

The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.

It is impossible to catch today

Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

My teachings are my life.

The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

I want people to feel something in the pit of their stomach. I want my movies, especially the ending, to stay with people long after the credits have rolled.

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.