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.

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.

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.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

If they really want us to be happy, they'd let us pick ourselves.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.