Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay.' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

Majestic doesn't appeal to us. We [Americans] like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling.

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.