"Television is intensely personal."

"Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form."

"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots."

"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."

"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."

"News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received."

"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."

"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."

"The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus."

"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."

"The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news."

"The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me."

"The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go."

"The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer."

"To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right."

"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."

"If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."

"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."

"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."

"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."

"You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals."

"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."

"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy"