Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

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

Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.