Edward R. Murrow

There are ships sailing to my ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

Listen to the birds and don’t hate nobody.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.