Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.

When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.