For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.