When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.