In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.