I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

We women have to stick together.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

The best business decision I've made was to become a songwriter. I can't say that I have a worst, because I don't have any regrets.

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.