When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

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.

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

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.

The thoughts on the mind come out of mouth.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.

I could puke on myself and still be good looking.