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.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

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

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

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.