The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams

LOVE COULD BE LABLEDPOISON AND WE’D DRINK IT ANYWAYS.

...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...

People want to start their day off with a smile or, better yet, a guffaw.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.