Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

Listening and showing you are there for someone is often more important than trying to find a "fix" for a problem. I wish there were more people who practice this.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.

Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.

There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships.

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

If you were dead," Owen told her, "you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.