A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

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.

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.

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

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.