I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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 child is a child.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

Very often the music comes first.

It's important for me to make sure that the men see and recognize that that woman is their equal.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.