Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.