Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.