“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.” Morgan Freeman "After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more to climb." Nelson Mandela "I learned that courage was not the absense of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." Nelson Mandela
This is a friend's Facebook status: Thought for Today: "The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be." — Lao-tzu (low dzu), Chinese philosopher (c.604-531 B.C.).
That reminded me of something on my sister's Facebook this week: "You can teach people to hate, and you can teach people to spell, but apparently you can't do both, it's one or the other". I have no idea why but that amused the hell out of me at the time.
"your little red wagon is mighty close to the cliff" Mr Atkinson (my 6th grade teacher) Tarshibear (to my 2 children whenever they're pushing their luck)
"The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it." -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." -- Pablo Picasso
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." -- Mark Twain
"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working." -- Anonymous
