What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

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

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.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

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 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.