...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

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.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.