Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.