Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Hasten deliberately.

The Bear and the Two Travelers Two men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. He gave me this advice, his companion replied. Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

Have to go like a rushing racehorse.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

"You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock!.

Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display! For Winter maketh the light heart said, And thou,--makest the sad heart gay.