I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.

Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.

A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.