Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

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

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

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?