Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

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

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

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.