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.

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.