The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.