News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

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.

A smoky eye and nice hair are not going to make my night any easier.

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.