People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don’t want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.

— Tom Bodett

Tom Bodett Quotes

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

— Tom Bodett

Happiness Relationship Sweet Positive Motivational Wisdom

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.

— Tom Bodett

Experience Teaching Funny Inspirational School Funny About Life

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

— Tom Bodett

You can make a new friend but you can’t make an old one.

— Tom Bodett

In the America I see from here, anything is possible – especially the impossible.

— Tom Bodett

That’s what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

— Tom Bodett

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

— Tom Bodett

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

— Tom Bodett

Tom Kizzia hasn’t just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he’s lived it. ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’ is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.

— Tom Bodett

Somebody says, ‘Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,’ and it sounds like something out of ‘Hee Haw,’ very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

— Tom Bodett

People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don’t want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.

— Tom Bodett

Kids in Alaska don’t know they’re growing up on the Last Frontier. It’s just what they see on the license plates, and it’s something tourists like to say a lot because they’ve never been around so many mountains and moose before.

— Tom Bodett

I’m happy to report you still get nothing you don’t need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don’t have to pay for it. I don’t need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.

— Tom Bodett

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they’ve got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I’m not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that’s the difference, I think.

— Tom Bodett

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that’s what I needed to do, I didn’t need to be in school to do it.

— Tom Bodett

I’m real. I believe what I’m saying. If Motel 6 wasn’t the type of operation they say it is – and I stay at them when I travel – I wouldn’t do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that’s what it’s all about.

— Tom Bodett

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