I think America has a brilliant future.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don’t give up. Find out what you’re made of.

... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.

Had I ever truly been free? Though I wasn’t shipped off to different countries did that make me any less of a prisoner?

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

Stumble is worse than falling, because stumble is not as instructive as the falling!

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.