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

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.

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.

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.

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?

Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born.

There is one difference between mind power and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

When a human's tears finally dry up forever, they transform into a monster.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party