Public radio has always been so powerless.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

If my 'mind' don't mind, I don't mind.

I was a fool for love, I was a fool.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

So he was handsome. That fact did nothing to soften her feelings toward the walking interference she studied across the room.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.