There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.