The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

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