Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.