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

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.

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

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.

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 let your success interfere with your humanness.

Your love taught me to grieveand I have been needing, for centuriesa woman to make me grievefor a woman, to cry upon her armslike a sparrowfor a woman to gather my pieceslike shards of broken crystal

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general

Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Man loves most that which is his own.

There's some things you can cover up. And there's some things you can't.