Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?