The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.