Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? “Gray hairs,” the would-be Buddha said, “are like angels sent by the god of death”.
Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren’t being told, and the fact that people don’t know about them compounds the suffering.
Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn’t matter.
I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don’t know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don’t know as long as you say you don’t know it.
Anyone who says they’re not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.
I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.
If I end up hosting ‘Joker’s Wild,’ please shoot me.
The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten.
When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we’re going to cover it in a way that’s non-partisan, that’s not left or right.
I have a friend – I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don’t want a million texts. It’s exhausting.
Our skin is very thin. It doesn’t take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.
I’ve always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There’s nothing I can do about it but I’ve never not been able to stop.
The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
The whole celebrity culture thing – I’m fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
I’ve been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.
Politics was his passion, but he wasn’t suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.