It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much
It annoys the ingredients
And spoils the food

When you are looking for love, then love is spreading its net to catch you.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

Love is a sacred silence.

Mayors are judged by results.