Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

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.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.