The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas and all we've been producing is footnotes.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.

Awakening is a different name for raising one's frequency. It is about becoming more aware of different perspectives, from which you may choose whatever you resonate with.

If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy.

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

Obviously we're celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era, but we're also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It's a bit of mixed emotions.

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.