High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.