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

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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

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

Friendship

"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."

Friendship

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

Media

"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."

Love

"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."

Kids

"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."

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"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."

Society

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

Driving

"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."

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"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."

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