One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

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.