The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.