Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

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 to 'smack,' and quickly.

It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.

I'd much rather wear out than rust out.

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.