Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

The battle on the cross reveals just how little Satan understands God

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

Relationships that do not end peacefully, do not end at all.

Dr. [ Peter R.] Breggin's book can show you how to take your child back from the authoritarian state that wants to dope your child up because he may be misbehaving.

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.