Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.