Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example. "Robert doesn't get C's and D's does he?" asked his father. "No," Junior admitted, "but he's different. He has very bright parents".

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.