It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.

(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

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.

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.