Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

The desire to write grows with writing.

How much faith you put in a prayer is more important than how much you pray without faith.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?

When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.