Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

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

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.

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

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.