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.

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

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.

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.

Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

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

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