Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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.
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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.
Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.
I didn’t know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn’t time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can’t read. That’s terribly troubling to me.
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.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
You never heard anybody ask ‘Elvis who?’
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
Look for joy in your life; it’s not always easy to find.
It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?
If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that’s where you’ll find Bill Veeck.