"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."

"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."

"It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself."

"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong."

"I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government."

"Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind."

"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."

"I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices."