"Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y."

“Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.”

“As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.”

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

Source : Quoted in Thomas J Peters and Robert H Waterman Among Friends (1982).

“Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.”

“Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets”

“Magic [has] been replaced by machinery.”

“There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.”

“prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.”

Source : Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.59