I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.