As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.

Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

I don't know how to thank everyone for all their help.

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.