"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough."

"I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling."

"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."

"The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way."

"Wisdom principle 90 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 40."

"A life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives."

"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."