Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted,
the leader must be doubly vigilant.
~ Colin Powell
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
~ Mark Twain
There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!
~ Charles Swindoll
What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.
~ Peggy Noonan (Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now)
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
~ Dr. Laurence J. Peter
