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

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

I hope it will make them a lot more confident about money – and a lot less susceptible to foolish mistakes that could part them from it.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the...

You need heroes like that for a sport to surge the way basketball did with Michael Jordan. Now he’s gone and that sport is having problems.

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you’re raised. And she had...

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes… the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and...

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I’m just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news...

If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton’s positions between now and 2008, we’re going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go.

It’s time to acknowledge that the TV ratings adopted more than eight years ago have proved to be a shabby, irrelevant, hopelessly confusing failure.

In the morning, I reach for the sports page.

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

Television’s not going read stories to you.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions – Politics, like Rock, Pop, and Camp, has its uses.

We have three cats. It’s like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field...

A finished person is a boring person.

Now I know what a statesman is; he’s a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of...

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone – or even close to everyone.

The theme with Hillary Clinton is, she wants to know where the outrage is. And we’ve found where the outrage is. It’s in Howard Dean.

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course – I’m a girly-girl – and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill...

It’s gonna be short if it’s news; put it at the top. Style’s not an issue, just make it news.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on...

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney’s press conference.

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith;...

The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, first adopted its code of ethics in 1926 and revised it most recently in 1996.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it’s an example of freedom from religion.

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody’s mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can’t stand...

Millions of Americans annually commit themselves to such good works, and no country on earth comes close to matching our record.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.