Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.