This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.

The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.