The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.

It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love - they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Money need not be our only reward.

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

Everything can be improved.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

The team with the best players wins.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

We can accomplish more together than we can alone.

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.