Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir "Goodbye to All That," and a civilian memoir "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain.
At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater. Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing.
What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back. . . [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.
Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.