People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

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.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.