He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

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.

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

There is no gains without pain.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

While at first it seemed like a depressing realization, I soon realized that makeup is powerful - it's every woman's secret weapon.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

My music should evoke a feeling; whether it's a feeling in your stomach, goosebumps, whatever. When you don't get a feeling then there's a problem.