Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

So few grown women like their lives.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.

Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.