A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

Back of the job-the dreamer Who's making the dream come true!

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

I can be stupid sometimes.

I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?

Animals look at people the way people look at people that might mug them.

I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.