In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.
Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself
You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.
Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.
I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.
I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.
When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.
I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.
The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.
That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.
Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.
Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.
I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.
As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.
