The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Education was central to reporting.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self-belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts.

That lack of value sense would deprive a person from a protective instinct.

The way strength and conditioning has helped me now is that I make it a point to go to the gym everyday if I can.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.