A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

You never get what you deserve; only what you have the leverage to negotiate.

If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

I know why superman left krypton. Earth was the only place where he could get steriods!

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.