The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

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

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

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