Goals that are not frightening are not worth having.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

Good Seeds! Gratitude is the Greatest Attitude that has no Substitute.

The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

Al Gore wants us to clean up our factories...when China and other countries couldn't care less. China, Japan, and India are laughing at America's stupidity.

You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

One never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much.

While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.