Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

If I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

If you have talent, I believe that talent will win out. In other words, if you're a good broadcaster, if you're a funny comic, you'll be heard. If you know how to do a broadcast, if you're a good newsman, if you can see an event and describe it, you're going to be heard and you're going to be seen. So there's always room. Now with cable and satellite and Internet, it's endless. You could blog, you could be your own talent.

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.