The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

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

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

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.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

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