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

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

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

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….

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

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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

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?.

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

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as ….

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

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

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….

Always stay in with the outs..

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….

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

In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of le….

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….