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

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

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.

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!

I was once in darkness, but now, the light of God has shone upon me.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!