Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

Education unfolds your beauty and lets you bloom to express your beauty.

The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.

Envy yearns to find flaws.

Civilization has made life a humanized jungle, a sugar coated jungle, but still a jungle

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries.