Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is unugly.