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

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.

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.

Life demands something else, discomfort and pain.

Without knowing failure how can we know success?

The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

John is a man of his word. And so am I.

My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.

That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

We have souls. And guardian angels. We are never alone. I feel so comforted knowing this.