Time Should Make Enemies And

Of Necessity, We Made The Discovery That It Is Easier To Turn Poets Into Business Journalists Than To Turn Bookkeepers Into Writers.

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, And Shadows In The Jungle. To See, And To Take Pleasure In Seeing. To See And Be Instructed. To See And Be Amazed. (describing The Powers Of Photography; Written For The Launch Of Life Magazine, 1936.)

I Became A Journalist To Come As Close As Possible To The Heart Of The World.

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 Larger Number Of People Who Are Supposed To Desire To Share It.

I Suggest That What We Want To Do Is Not To Leave To Posterity A Great Institution, But To Leave Behind A Great Tradition Of Journalism Ably Practiced In Our Time.