People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.