NPR features essays submitted fifty years ago to This I Believe. For five minutes each day, listeners heard from statesmen and secretaries, teachers and cab drivers, all of whom spoke about their most deeply held beliefs.
This reporter’s beliefs are in a state of flux. It would be easier to enumerate the items I do not believe in, than the other way around. And yet in talking to people, in listening to them, I have come to realize that I don’t have a monopoly on the world’s problems. Others have their share, often far bigger than mine. This has helped me to see my own in truer perspective: and in learning how others have faced their problems–this has given me fresh ideas about how to tackle mine.~ Edward R. Murrow