I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

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.

Love is the miraculous power of life.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?" "Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?" "No. I was unconscious.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

Ed Balls is like a drunk trying to drink his way out of alcoholism.

I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.