When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.

What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude.

Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can, hopefully, awaken people and change minds. I think it depends on who’s piloting the plane.