I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

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.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

I thought my inner voice was telling me it was time to sell my house and get rid of everything that I had. But what I was told was to just make my load lighter.

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

Chance favours a prepared mind.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.

The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread.