I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

• Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
• Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
• By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
• What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
• Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
• It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
• In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
• No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
• The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
• In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?