I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
“postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share
