"Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives."

“I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.”

Source : "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

“It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.”

“There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!”

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,”

Source : Studies in the History of the Renaissance "The School of Giorgione" (1873)

“The public interest always surprises me. I come to work in these rooms with no windows. At night I go home. I just live my life. I guess I just don't think much about whether people are going to watch. Most of my friends don't know much about what I do, and we don't talk about it. I have a different life away from work. Which is fine, because my work can get pretty intense.”

“I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.”

“You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.”

“Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal." Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.”