David Brinkley

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

Above all else, I would choose you. When there’s no more grand gestures, no more words to say, when everything around us begins to give way, when the sky grows dim and the colors fade, I will choose you.

Enjoy what other people do and learn from them.