Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment..

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christian….

The idea of universal human rights may not seem as weird to some people as the idea of a personal God, but it is still a metaphysical idea that liber….

In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's baseball. But there is ….

Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no cant. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows….

I've learned to take the positive and negative, but that still kind of shook me. I'm human. I have moments when I sit back and wonder how doing somet….

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a ho….

I'll never forget this one time on an airplane when I was told in front of everyone that I had to purchase a second seat because I didn't fit into on….

If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families ….

People who make decisions go to the top. Those who fail to make decisions go nowhere..

Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something amazing about sharin….

I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. E….

Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me..

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do..

When there's a good fit between skills and expectations, there's what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there's a poor ….

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us..

A lot of people wonder how you can tell if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this question: 'Would I mind being financially destroyed by this ….

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people sa….

People don't want information; they want epiphanies..

Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search..

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a h….