We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

Those who fail to think, will shrink, sink and stink.

From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.

I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a talking movie [The Artist], I'm sure she would be exactly the same for me.

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.