Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Photography is not something you retire from.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

Last night on the show I had Olympics fever. Unfortunately, it's getting worse. That's not good. I have to call my doctor if my torch burns for more than four hours.

Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.

A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.