There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
Professionally I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up and more so for me the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk but him out there doing things.
I had never been out covering a story but boy was that fun.
As a child I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.
I stayed three weeks in Paris fell in love with the city and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
You can work hard to sharpen your talent to get better at whatever it is that you do and I think that's what it comes back to.
And I always found that the harder I worked the better my luck was because I was prepared for that.
Be prepared work hard and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are the more luck you might have.
I had a lot of fun in Cambodia much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
And I realized that there was no sports reporter so I started covering sporting events.
My mother worked in factories worked as a domestic worked in a restaurant always had a second job.
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework and that's something I learned at an early age.
I made the decision to come back to New York quit my job and move to Paris.
I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
You know I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do no matter what you achieve no matter how much success you have no matter how much money you have relationships are important.
The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
My uncle was a hero Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out I had the rent for the month.