Edward R. Murrow

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience- or, briefly work.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.