The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.