Ed Bradley

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.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

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.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.