You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.

travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.