I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.