Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

- Henry R. Luce

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

- Henry R. Luce

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

- Henry R. Luce

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic …

- Henry R. Luce

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

- Henry R. Luce

To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, an…

- Henry R. Luce

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

- Henry R. Luce

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

- Henry R. Luce

Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much l…

- Henry R. Luce