Hugh Downs Video

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.