There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.