Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.