What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.