Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

We all have hometown appetites.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

Money doesn’t help if your mind is poor

The more you choose to focus on the positive, the more positive will come into focus. The choice is yours.

The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.

Being different is not a sin, but intolerance is.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

Andy [Griffith] and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me he loved me. He was a wonderful man.

Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.