He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Education was central to reporting.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

Do not just go through the day without pausing to ponder! You shall only retire wondering.

Lord I am willing to walk with you, take my hand.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Bush is the face on the can. But who canned that soup?

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.