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

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.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

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.