I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

Love is serene and calm

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Time and the timeless dimension co-exist here, now in this very moment that we're living, this very moment that we're speaking.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.