“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.”

“I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.”

“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.”

“When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.”

“Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.”

“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.”

“I have heard that the French like to say, "Nobody grows old during a happy occasion at the dining table." With such wonderful family and friends all around us for Mitchell's and Stacie's wedding, I...”

“To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.”

“The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

“Hard work should be rewarded by good food.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”