I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

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.

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.