The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

We are justified by faith.

Curiosity is also my worst vice, and once stirred one not to be denied.

Love of bustle is not industry.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

You have a dizzying intellect.