No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.