I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is - try to please everybody.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is-try to please everybody.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

The English language is nobody's special property.

When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?

Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

You have to be really vigilant and appreciative of what you have and not get too excited about anything. But it's important to celebrate what you have and feel proud for a minute.

But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.