Favorite Quotes

Never argue with idiots as they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Everyone of us knows what must be done.
None of us knows how to get reelected once we do it.
Jean Claude Juncker.

The abbreviated version of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

The choice of which of these motivates you is your choice.

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. --William Wordsworth

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. --Aesop

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. --Jacques Cousteau

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” --Martin Luther King, Jr.

"He who cannot rest, cannot work; He who cannot let go, cannot hold on; He who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
--Benjamin Franklin

"Better to admit you walked through the wrong door than spend your entire life in the wrong room." -Unknown

Be the change that you want to see in the world!

If you believe that, I'm not sayin' you're the dumbest person in the world but you better hope the dumbest person doesn't die.
- Unknown

If alcohol is the devil's handshake then, right now, I need a hug.

- Unknown

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
--Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. --Katherine Anne Porter

Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn't we?
--Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."
--Betty Smith

I forget exactly the quote but saw it posted online somewhere. Context is at Yosemite Nation Park, someone asked a ranger why it was so difficult to design the perfect bear-proof trash bins.

To which the ranger replied "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest humans."

"When you talk, you can only say something that you already know. When you listen, you learn what someone else knows."


"Integrity is telling myself the truth. Honesty is telling the truth to other people."
--Spencer Johnson

One mile of road will take you one mile.

One mile of runway will take you anywhere.

“He doesn’t have 2 brain cells to rub together.”

-dad (and I don’t know where he heard it)

"You can`t always have a good day, but you can always face a bad day with a good attitude"

“I joined for BMW wisdom, stayed because one small coding change somehow becomes a full weekend project.”

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it takes some eyesight to see what will put it right again. --Will Rogers

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
--John Wooden