Supplemental 12.15.08

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years,

 no matter what it does.                - Will Rogers

 

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.                           -Albert Einstein

 

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."  -Martin Van Buren

 

"My failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent." Ulysses S. Grant

 

"The only man who makes no mistake is the man who does nothing."

-         Teddy Roosevelt

 

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.

-Carol Burnett

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

Margaret Cho,

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Kevin Kelly,

 

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth."

Peter McWilliams,

 

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao-Tzu

 

 

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
  - David Letterman

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
  - Abraham Lincoln