Diane Sawyer

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.