Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

When tourism was connected to beautification, with wildflower trails, wildflower festivals, great gardens, we pretty much took the word beauty out of the sole province of the "ladies at a tea party" to the province of the business community.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Many times I have made a plea to save wildflowers along the fence rows. The sumac, the wild roses, the wisteria, the sunflowers, the gayfeathers stay in the fence rows and can be a nesting spot for quail, rabbits, birds,and other small animals.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better that I used to be.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.