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.

I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.

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

In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.