We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

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.

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

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.

The best thing about a vacation is planning it.