"The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus."

"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best."

"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."

"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."

"News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received."

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."

"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."

"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."

"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots."

"Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form."

"Television is intensely personal."

"Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain."

"When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion."

"Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe."

"The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps."

"If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"

"Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used."

"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."

"We make our purpose."

"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"

"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)"

"I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship."

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."

"I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions."

"If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go"

"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."

"A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone."

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."

"Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship."

"And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude."

"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."

"All colours are arbitrary."

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."

"A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

"By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang."

"The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines."

"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy."

"Science is only a Latin word for knowledge"

"Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being."

"There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy."

"You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated."

"When you've never had something, you want it worse than anything."

"I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game."

"It's easier for me to let the game just come to me."

"Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that."

"I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different."

"I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on."

"I think I am a smarter player now."

"You make your own party."

"I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team."