Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

The richest person in the world -- in fact. All the riches in the world -- couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism -- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

It's never too late to learn.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.