The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

It is a great joy to love and be loved.

Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

Animals don't have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one.

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

Within us there is the capacity of being anyone or anything