While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.
So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'
I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.
If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.
My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
