Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges »

BYRON PITTS is chief national correspondent for CBS News and contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes. He has received several awards, including national Emmy Awards for his coverage of the Chicago train wreck in 1999 and the attacks of 9/11. He also garnered recognition as NABJ Journalist of the Year Award in 2002 for his coverage of the 9/11 attacks. He is also the recipient of four Associated Press Awards and six regional Emmy Awards.

Byron Pitts chronicles his astonishing story of overcoming a childhood filled with obstacles to achieve enormous success in life.

Introduction 1

1 Mustard Seed Faith-With It You Can Move Mountains 7

2 Keep Your Head Up 21

3 Quiet Discipline 49

4 Who's Got Your Back? 61

5 The Hands That Pull You Up 81

6 Letters from Home 109

7 An Angel from Estonia 119

8 Never Say I'll Try, Say I Will 133

9 It Never Gets Easier-You Just Get Stronger 157

10 Valley of the Shadow of Death 183

11 Love the Least of Us 209

12 The Power of Prayer and Optimism 233

13 The Power of Forgiveness: When Father and Son Talk as Men 247

14 Earthquake in Haiti: When Life Is Unfair 267

Epilogue 275

Acknowledgments 285

Index 287