Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.