Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.