Quote of the day...

"He who throws mud only loses ground."

Quote of the day...

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for."

--Joseph Addison

Quote of the day...

"Governments never learn.  Only people learn."

--Milton Friedman, Nobel prize-winning economist

Quote of the day...

"I hadn't been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway.  It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me."

--Lily Casey Smith, in Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls

Quote of the day...

"Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bitten by a mosquito."

--Lily Casey Smith, talking about the responsibility to vote, in Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls

Quote of the day...

"Hope for the best and plan for the worst."

--Lily Casey Smith's father in Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls

Quote of the day...

"(The) most important thing in life is learning how to fall."

--Lily Casey Smith's father, quoted in Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls