“The secret to eternal youth is arrested development”

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”

“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”

“...the Midwest is coping with a twenty-first-century problem [globalization] with a nineteenth-century political and social structure [relying on state and city solutions rather than regional solutions].”

“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.”

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”