Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

It can be done. It will be done.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.