I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that 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.

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.