What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

So few grown women like their lives.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

Torture. He was torturing her. And she didn't want it to ever stop.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

Are you asking me or telling me?

New places always help us look at life differently

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.