The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
Charles Kuralt

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles Kuralt

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
Charles Kuralt

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
Charles Kuralt

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
Charles Kuralt

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
Charles Kuralt

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
Charles Kuralt

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
Charles Kuralt

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
Charles Kuralt

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
Charles Kuralt

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
Charles Kuralt

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
Charles Kuralt