I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

I plan to die at my desk.

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes its the best kind of journalism as long you dont confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

My family didn't have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, 'Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?' And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even very exciting to fall in love. You just have to be interested in it. It's the same thing with food.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy.