"The past is history and the future is a mystery."

- Vanilla Ice

"Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves."

- Norm Franz

"If you can't take a hint from life, life will hit you."

Carl Jung

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

Albert Bartlett

"Patience is having patience when you no longer have patience to be patient"

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war."

Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."

“Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.”

Gregory Bateson

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Scottish author, essayist, & historian

"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."

Herbert Simon (1978)

"How do I know that in clinging to this life I'm not merely clinging to a dream and delaying my entry into the real world?"

Chuang Tze (Lao Tze's disciple)

just for today no anger

just for today no worries

just for today count my many blessings

just for today do my work with joy

just for today be kind

"Knowledge does not change behavior. We have all encountered crazy shrinks and obese doctors and divorced marriage counselors."

Jerry Sternin

"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the sinking Titanic there were three types of people on board. The first type refused to believe the ship was sinking and sat in the bar enjoying the luxurious apertifs. The second panicked and went crazy trying to save themselves. The third, asked, 'How can we build a lifeboat?'

Michael Ruppert

"Politics is show business for ugly people."

"Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize.
Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight.
The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way."

~ Victor Frankl, in the book "Man's Search for Meaning"

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

Ronald Reagan