I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they’ll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.

His mother was as frosty as the polar icecaps. His sister was gone. Who did he have that cared about him? Who would remind him that he mattered?

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.