I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

Unfortunately, the escape became the trap.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book.'

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.