Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.