“News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)”

“The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”

“In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.”

“The sun sat, in immense fieriness, just above the horizon, the sea, glittering in great swatches of phosphorescent white, waiting to receive it. Then the blazing ball dived and was gone, swallowed in one big gulp by the hungry waters. Amazing how fast, once it got near it, the sun in these latitudes hastened into the sea.”

“If you didn't like it, why didn't you quit?"To do what? Wasn't anything I knew better than farming. I was cursed, that was the problem. Just because I didn't like it didn't mean I wasn't good at it... It's a curse all right, you're just too young to know about that sort of thing. To be good at something you don't care about?”