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

I have the necessary lack of tact.

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

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

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.

Going after ISIS, it's beautiful, I like it.

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.