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.

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.

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.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.

When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was what made me great

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.