Steve Van Zandt's long, strange comeback road

Steve Van Zandt was in the Bruce Springsteen band when it was unknown. He was making $200 a week. He left just before it became famous. He made five albums of his own, but none clicked.

He spoke at the 1997 Rock Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The producer of the Sopranos was watching, and decided to cast him as Tony Soprano's right hand man. Steve had never acted but he fit right in. "I spent my whole life trying to learn about who I am. Being somebody else is a vacation," he said.

Another comeback: Just as "The Sopranos" began filming, Bruce Springsteen called. He was putting the E Street Band back together and wanted Van Zandt to tour with him again.

Steve's story............

Bob Woodruff returns to ABC

Thirteen months ago, while reporting in Iraq, his convoy was attacked. The ABC anchor suffered injuries to his brain, neck, face; he nearly died. His comeback has been a grueling ordeal. But he made it. Read more....

Happiness 101

How to be happy -- the new "in" course on campus at:

Harvard

Kansas

Michigan

Penn

And more on the Harvard prof who is getting the lion's share of the attention for this new movement.

Quote: Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Every time you see a White House press conference...

You are seeing a comeback story. White House press chief Tony Snow is a cancer survivor.

Losing her job was the best thing that happened to Australian Jackie Barnes

Full story in Forbes.

Quote: Howard Thurman

Don't ask what the world needs. Rather ask -- what makes you come alive? Then go and do it! Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.