Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles.

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.