I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

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

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

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

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.

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

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.