President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

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

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.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

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.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that.