You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you.

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn’t know what to make of me.

Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first questions you ask when you go in to investigate something.

Every first is a loss.

Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties, he said.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

This world is a little dark, and I am LIGHTS.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.