It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.

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.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.

Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

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