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

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.

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.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

Learn something today in order to make tomorrow a better today.