Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

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.

A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother.

Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.

When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.