Diane Sawyer

I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.

The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.

I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.