You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

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.

Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams.

If perception is limited to experience and knowledge, what proof do we have of moral judgement?

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.