CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.

When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.