When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

Leadership is influence

A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.

You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.