Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
Strangers are what friends are made of.
The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.
We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.
It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.
Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
