You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

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.

Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.