The two biggest sellers in bookstores are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.

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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but that all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

I've learned that when you're in love, it shows.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

I've learned that when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

As I grow in age, I value women who are over forty most of all. Here are just a few reasons why: A woman over forty will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, What are you thinking? She doesn't care what you think.

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.