Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.