 Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. |
| When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me. |
| When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough. |
| The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. |
| TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. |
| I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. |
| Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7. |
| 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. |
| I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in. |
| I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. |
| I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. |
| You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. |
| A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. |
| Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. |
| The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. |
| I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. |
| I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. |
| Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter. |
| When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. |
| I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. |
