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.

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.

I think America has a brilliant future.

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.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves.

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

Defense is superior to opulence.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.