I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.