News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand.

When you stop being owned by your emotions you'll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel

As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.

Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.