I’ve learned … that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren’t new at all.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

In spite of some bad experiences, I’m a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort – the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing – the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Every one starts out being an atheist.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Republicans … are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won’t work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.