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" We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. "

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" I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. "

" I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. "

" A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. "

" It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. "

" I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. "

" I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. "

Falling In Love

" The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. "

" 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. "

" Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. "

" I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society. "

" 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. "

" I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. "

" The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. "

" Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find. "

" There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. "

" I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism. "

Competitiveness

" 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. "

" Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. "

" I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. "

" You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. "

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

" I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in. "