All news is an exaggeration of life.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

Romance comes from the heart and is manifested in actions.

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it’s not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Plagiarism saves time.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.