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

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.

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

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

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.