With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

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.

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

It was only a sunny smile But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving Like morning light And made the day worth living.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.