Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.

No libraries, no progress.

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.