There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.
If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
I'm not any kind of social reformer.
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
New York is the true City of Light in any season.
I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
