I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.