Diane Sawyer

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

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

Great questions make great reporting.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer.

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.

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.

I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.

I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.