Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward, you will ask no other.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!

If God is your solid foundation, good or bad, you're going to be happy, you're going to be joyous if you're in him. And that's what we stand on.