I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

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.

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.