“Only in Houston can you smile at someone and they will smile back without second-guessing it.”

“My neighbors are ROCKET SCIENTISTS. I look at the news and see us sending satellites, robots, and people into space and I think of the people across the street and down the road, and I am amazed. Is there a smarter suburb anywhere in the country than the area around NASA? One downside: competing in the high school science fair was rough.”

“You never have to worry about falling off a cliff or being buried in a landslide.”