In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

I'd like to be lucky enough so that I could throw the soap away after the letters are worn off.

Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

Go to bed. What you're staying up for isn't worth it.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.