Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

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

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.

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

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.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.