It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.