Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.

I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

People are always surprised when they see me speak live that I have a sense of humor. And I say, Well, you know, there's not much opportunity to laugh when you're reporting the dread news of the day.

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

Time does not heal old wounds. New ones do.

If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as seven) then he wasn't as smart as I thought he was – as I knew he was.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at all.

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.