I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

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.

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

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

A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.