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

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

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

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.

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.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

I'm very much a family person.

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.