The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.