My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.