While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.