The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?