I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

Marilynne Robinson

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Karen Armstrong

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

John Updike

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

Abraham Lincoln

The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accountable.

Don Mashak

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Henry Miller

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

John Madden

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Jerry Saltz

There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Jim Morrison

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare

Lewis Morris

I still work out on a daily basis.

Clint Eastwood