That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

Vegetarianism is the cure for 99% of the world's problems. Think about it.

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

To be trusted is to be entrusted.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

You cannot make a cheap palace.