Morley Safer

"Memory without perspective is just nostalgia."

"The most important interview is the one you conduct with yourself."

"Power corrupts slowly, but deception corrupts instantly."

"A society that cannot question itself is a society in decline."

"The difference between journalism and propaganda is distance - emotional and intellectual."

"Youth thinks it invents the world; age knows the world invents itself."

"Compassion without judgment is the foundation of understanding."

"The camera is a mirror, but only if you're willing to look."

"Bad news doesn't get better with time; it only gets worse."

"What seems normal in our own time often seems absurd in another's."

"Expertise is knowing what you don't know."

"The best arguments are the ones where both sides change their minds."

"Risk is not the enemy of security; complacency is."

"To understand a culture, you must first understand its silences."

"The pursuit of happiness often brings only the pursuit of more."

"Every person is an author of their own narrative, until they stop writing."

"Loyalty is not the absence of disagreement; it's disagreement without betrayal."

"The most dangerous lie is the one you tell yourself."

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you expected."

"In journalism, as in life, timing is everything."

"The voice of one is louder than the silence of a thousand."

"Beauty exists in the margins of the expected."

"What we document becomes what we remember."

"The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."

"Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching and everyone would understand if you didn't."

"The best education teaches you how to think, not what to think."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the presence of dialogue."

"A good question is worth a hundred good answers."

"The measure of a person is how they treat those who can do nothing for them."

"Technology connects us, but isolation disconnects us from ourselves."