Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him,...

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely...

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn’t Ali.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that’s who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or...

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there’s not much evidence of it.

I got into journalism because I came of age in the ’60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don’t see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

I’m proud of what I look like. I’m proud that I look like my mom.

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium,...

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There’s just more going on. It’s an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most...

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Bargain… anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The Olympics are coming… and it’s a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we’re all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes...

We’ve got to rebuild human hearts – and persuade people that hope isn’t just possible, but essential.

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a...

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

What a couple. I’m consumed into ashes. And he’s always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about...

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Television is a visual medium, and you want to look good, but beyond that it’s about reporting, about giving information to the viewers.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they’re not really watching news, that’s not our audience.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

Being an optimist after you’ve got everything you want doesn’t count.

From two o’clock one afternoon until the ship docked in England again the next evening at seven, none of the medical personnel stopped work.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate’s character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen’s decision in voting.

This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.

I mean, we’ve had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take...

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.