I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

Newspapers should have no friends.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with that insane communist. And Putin is a little crazy as well.

My style is more moi-centric.

It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

We are all dying of life.

Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.