"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."

"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."

"I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling."

"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

"The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations."

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."

"Wisdom principle 82 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 58."