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

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!

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 don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

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

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.