If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.