Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.