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“People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.”
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“My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.”
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“And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.”
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“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
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“I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.”
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“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”
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“But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.”
Source : "CNN Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, www.cnn.com. December 28, 2002. 
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“There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.”
Source : Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.259
