Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

I always wondered if you clone your wife and have the cloned wife on the moon and the real wife down here, would that be considered cheating?