The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

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.

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.