Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.