To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

While there is tea, there is hope.")

To understand the language of love and peace, listen to the silence.

The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that people tend to think that's enough.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]