I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

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 elimination diet:Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry.Then watch your health, and life, improve.

Change is the universal truth If you don't change Changes will definitely Change you

A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

He really is alone in whatever hell this is.Completely and utterly alone.'It isn't, ' he thinks, as he trudges back toward his house, 'the most unfamiliar feeling in the world.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.