Charles Kuralt

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.