During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physicall….

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable..

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular yo….

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people..

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be..

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past..

Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibite….

The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a….

Always stay in with the outs..

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world..

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong..

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty..

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit b….

A staff can be no better than the man it serves..

There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like t….

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L….

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of ….

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things..

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it..