he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Education was central to reporting.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg. I felt dirty and stupid.

No one could have imagined a place like Havana, Cuba. It is absurdly contradictory, always arguing with itself over whether it is audacious or meek, heroic or stupid, beautiful or abhorrent.

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

...he fed his insides before they fed on him.

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.

The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.