I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.