The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.
I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,. " Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.
Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.
I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.
I plan to die at my desk.
If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them
Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.
Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.