We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

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.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

Don't lean on the past, learn from it and move on.

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

You live up - or down - to your expectations.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.