Contraries are cured by contraries.

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.