I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

All I'm armed with is research.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

Why am I trying to be somebody? I am somebody.

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.

Jaguar — For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

I've done a lot of pilots, and they're all so expositional. In the beginning, I think that it is important to make sure that the audience is invested in us.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.