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“Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?”
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“While holding positive thoughts and emotions is advantageous, positive thinking itself is not "Hallmark Card thinking." It's really an ongoing awareness that all truly is well with the world, with life, and with oneself. It's also a commitment not to mindlessly pass on fears but to bring positive energy, images, ideas, and feelings into the lives of others, to help them attune to the wellness at the heart of the world.”
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“A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.”
Source : 1987 Of the Iran-Contra scandal. In the NewYork Times, 24 Jul.
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“Every team in the NFL is hard, but when we play our own division it's a fight. Our goal is to make it to the playoffs and to do that we have to win games within the division. We match up well against this division, it's just a matter of getting on the field and doing what we know we can do.”
Source : Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com. 
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“Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.”
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“I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.”
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“A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.”
Source : "The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest". Book by Dan Buettner, www.amazon.com. January 1, 2008.
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“Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.”
