Show me a man who claims he is objective and I’ll show you a man with illusions.

It’s easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

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.)

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

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

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.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

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 or starkly, supercurtly factual.

I urge each of you to think seriously about the vision Dr. Daniel puts forth and think about what you can do to make it happen.