The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

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.

That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us

I think Sydney has so much natural beauty it's just a beautiful city.

I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel the essence of Martin Luther King is.

It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

But I am weirdly healthy, so I don’t beat myself up about it—it wouldn’t help, and I don’t want to pass that on to my girls.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.