After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. ~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is just out of grasp. But if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
— Anonymous
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.
George Carlin
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me. ~Author Unknown
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated from short term failures.
Charles C. Noble