his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,

All professions have some element of theater to them.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Education was central to reporting.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you.

A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future.

Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is true (or that it is false).

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon.

I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.