The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

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.