Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever as this.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

If you don't pay attention to me, I'm going to make you pay attention to me. I've always been that way.

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

Beware of the person of one book.

There is a dumbing down of the news. Newspapers today seem more like tabloids. I have to wade through seven newspapers before I can find a couple of paragraphs that are serious news. What a pity!