Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

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.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

Your history doesn't need to dictate your destiny

Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

I was thinking it was worth the risk if it meant forever with my faery girlfriend.

There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!