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

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

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

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

The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!