And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.

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

Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don't lose our place in it.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.