The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.