Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.

When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

I plan to die at my desk.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortalcoil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

I'm not like Woody Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to do a lot of stuff.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.