Hugh Downs

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Christmas is hard to forget.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.