I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.
I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting...
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted...
I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity...
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.