It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?