Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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.

Your temperament can drive people away from you and then you live a regrettable life

Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14

I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.

I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall down.

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

I thought I'd finally get to relax with Dimitri.

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?