It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Your needs are overwhelming? You can’t depend on yourself or others to meet them? You don’t even know what they are? Then need nothing.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

I'm so grounded, it's sad.

I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

The Qur'an says that every soul must taste of death. None of us can escape that, but for you there is no such thing as 'death'.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.