But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

Living for your purpose is equivalent to living for the Kingdom of God

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.

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