The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.