George Washington had a tough second term.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

Don't expect others to do your work for you.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.