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" The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. "

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" A president can't go to every memorial service. "

" I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about. "

" The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once. "

" Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well. "

" I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen. "

" Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do. "

" I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news. "

" We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. "

" Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others? "

" The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place. "

" Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it. "

" Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. "

" I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't. "

" Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program. "

" Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual. "

" It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets. "

" When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped. "

Higher Education

" What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way. "

" Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager. "

" Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. "

" Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down. "

" In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them. "

" Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle. "

" Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us. "

" Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie. "

" Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal? "

" Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide. "

" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "

" Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat. "

" There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership. "