TweetHere are 10 random quotations that I copied out of one of my many pocket books of notes.  I realize that I have tons of great quotes in my notes that don’t fit so well under a main heading, so why not put them under a “random” category?  More to follow in the future. 1) [...]

TweetLife is complete mystery and puzzle. It presents to us a host of opportunities to make or break our present and future. It offers to all of us 1440 minutes each day to be the best we can be and to do the best that we can do in all given circumstances. Life gives us [...]

Tweet The world is full of myriad voices directly to those who dare listen. Many voices take the stage in virtually all names you can imagine. The voices of the voiceless, the voices of the poor, the voices of the marginalized, the voices of….you can name it. The salient truth is that these voices have [...]

Tweet“Would you be interesting?  Read.  Would you know the best thoughts of the greatest people?  Read.  Would you know the greatest events in the countries of the world?  Read.  Would you know the earth and it’s peoples?  Read.  And with all your reading follow the advice of the wise Abbe Diment who said that we [...]

TweetChance favors only the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. -H. L. Hunt Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days… What you can do or think you can do, begin [...]

Tweet“The reading habit is most valuable in life.  I mean by that practice of using a little time, say half an hour a day, in the systematic reading of worthwhile literature.  The mind is opened to precious fields of  thought; the achievement of the ages becomes ours; even the future takes form. As the mind [...]

Tweet“I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient;   cheerfulness, fixed and permanent.  Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though [...]