Updated, Monday, October 17, 2011

Some quotes:

"When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not.   Disagreement, at this stage stimulates me.   But once a decision has been made, the debate ends.   From that point, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own."   - Colin Powell

"I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give." - Roberto Clemente

"Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle." - Jack Paar

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat." - Mother Teresa

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside." Denis Waitley

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. " - Upton Sinclair

"That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally." - William Feather

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. " - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There's always a right and a wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable." - George Moore

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." - C. S. Lewis

"Life is beautiful but people are crazy."     - Charles Osgood

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."     - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is."   - Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (1917-1986)

"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. "   - Alexis de Tocqueville

"All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things."   - Bobby Knight