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.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

Your child’s sense of security is not grounded in how perfect you are, but in the quality of the relationship you have.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim.

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

If you ever have to ask someone else's opinion on a trade, you shouldn't be in it.

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.