When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.