Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

I think war should be illegal.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, once joked, “Richard, just don’t come to Washington.

I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment. It seemed that war followed me everywhere I went.

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.