Prudent Ponderer Gifts

'It's my dreams: I find them offensive.'

Crowded Ice Fishing

'The organizational structure is pretty simple: We do the work; they take the credit.'

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

"Sitting here with you each day at sunset reminds me I have to get a job."

"Look, if I had all the answers, would I be living alone on the top of a mountain?"

'At least I don't have his life.'

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

'When you invented vegetables, Sir, did you know that my mother would be able to fit them all into one garden?'

The Vatican's undercover mission to Antarctica, and some endangered penguins.

'Naughty? Nice? Santa, I don't deal in absolutes.'

'Sometimes, in the stillness and warmth of an afternoon sun, I can almost hear interest compounding.'

A wiser and a better man

Lost and Profound.

'Yes sir, Thoreau had the right idea.'

"Have you tried turning off your conscious mind and then turning it back on again?"

Fish sleeps while counting worms that jump over a fence.

Financial Prudence disappears.

"You what? Well, you darn well ought to have a guilt complex"

George Santayana

'It wasn't easy, but I got you a jury of your peers — six hairdressers, five interior decorators, and a professor of 18th Century poetry.'

"And please let Alan Greenspan accept the things he cannot change, give him the courage to change the things he can and the wisdom to know the difference."

'I warned him that this was no place for a guy with inner-ear problems.'

'How come there aren't any peace heroes?'

'His version of sin is different from the press account.'

'Hurry up and enjoy your life as a pensioner! Three.. Two.. One..'

'Before we begin, let's say a little prayer for humility.'

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

'Well, in my case, Muzak DOESN'T help with meditation!'

'I should know who he is! His work is in every gallery I go into.'

"Do you mind? I'm reading the prospectus carefully before investing."

The thinker.

'The mind-body problem is best expressed in the formulation...OOf!'

'I really don't need to go to church, Reverend -- I feel guilty enough without it.'

'What's it all about?'