The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

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

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