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

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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,….

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

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..

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