Don't buy problems, they're giving them away for free.

The thought that there was one survivor, and that there was somehow something miraculous about his managing to make it through, gives all of us hope.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

The Super Bowl Indicator has been on the money 30 out of 37 times, which even by my math represents a success rate of more than 80%.

As frightening as that might be to accept, it is far less frightening than the other way of looking at it -- like it is all random chance, that there is no sense to it, and that anything can happen to anyone at any time.