Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

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.

Expect success. Desire success. Attract success. Realize success.

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory.

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.