It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.

Show me a filthy public restroom and I’ll show you a society where discipline and order have broken down.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

The visual of Satan isn’t one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it’s the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.

In my father's house are many mansions.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.