Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

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

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