Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

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.

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.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

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