News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

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.

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.

The heavenly Father is faithful.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

burning with curiosity

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.