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.

Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

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

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.

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

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is.