The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

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

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.