In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. 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.

Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.