Stability is a Chimera

To live is to change, to live well is to change a lot.

Cardinal Newman

What ?

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

Perfection is Rare

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Gustave Flaubert

For Finance Ministers (and their critics)

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Andrew Jackson

Modesty Required

No truly great man ever thought himself so.

William Hazlitt

Be Ridiculous !

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Albert Camus

When Not To Speak

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Reality Check

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell

Playing Safe

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for

- William Shedd

Are You Really Thinking or ... ?

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really re-arranging their prejudices.

William James

He Said Something Worthwhile !

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Calvin Coolidge

A Lazy Approach

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

Strength & Virtue

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Career Advice

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Listen !

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Wilson Mizner

Often True, but Potentially Dangerous

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

Three Hundred Years Later, It's Still True

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Alexander Pope

Popularity is a Trap

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

Another Reason Why Speech is Special

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Benjamin Franklin

Education is ...

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Anatole France