Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.

Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.