TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

What's interesting about the Taliban, is they're more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Humans are like sheepscattered everywherea shepherd is always needed to keep them united

The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.