Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

Great questions make great reporting.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.

I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.

I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf.

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.

Whatever you want in life other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

If youre curious youll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.