Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

- Diane Sawyer

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.

- Diane Sawyer

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!'

- Diane Sawyer

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.

- Diane Sawyer

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.

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

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

- Diane Sawyer

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.

- Diane Sawyer