In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

A creative invitation is a combination of materials and context that intrigue children with a suggestion of play.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

May God bless those who died and bless their families. With regards, George Bush.

With a sort of mental squint.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.