Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you. - Bill Whittle

Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

Intellectualism is the result of over-educating someone who was not that smart to begin with.

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.