When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.

All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

It makes you realize that people are the same wherever you go.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.