If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

You just stay patient, that's all.

No good end exists for any dictator!

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.