I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

When people say negative things or speculate, you can't help but feel hurt.

I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear -- and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

Rare is the book that can actually transform us into better, more fulfilled people. Having combed through the research and documented case studies all over the world, Kristof and WuDunn present the clearest view I have ever seen of the human soul. A Path Appears tells us whether we are intrinsically good, why specific ways we parent our newborns help predict their chances for success, and how we can live lives of greater significance. This book, full of rich and riveting true stories, reminds us that human greatness is all around us, and even within us, if we dare to look.

Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.