The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important..

There was no one around me who didn't work hard..

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how muc….

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job..

I think, in some ways, Michael Jackson is out of touch with reality, and I don't think he has people around him who can say, Michael, can't do this. ….

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I sto….

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy wh….

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business goi….

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I h….

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia..

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam..

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have..

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk,….

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun..

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that..

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio..

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age..

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years..

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris..

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to..

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio..