The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

I think America has a brilliant future.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

All we have in love are two unprotected hearts in an open field. And that’s why our hearts bleed so much when we get hurt.

There's a wonderful family called Stein There's Gert and there's Epp and there's Ein: Gert's poems are bunk Epp's statues are junk And no one can understand Ein.

Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.