Dont let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesnt go with it. — Colin Powell

Style that shows is only decorating, not style.- Sidney Lumet

Trust one who has gone through it.–Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC), The Aeneid

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.–Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan S. Taylor

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It’s no different in the financial realm. – Suze Orman

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at first sight.- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592), The Ceremony of the Interview of Princes

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.–H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946), The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.- George Bernard Shaw