"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks
made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.  I do
the very best I know how --- the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing
so until the end.  If the end brings me out all right, what is said against
me won't amount to anything.  If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels
swearing I was right would make no difference."
- Abraham Lincoln  (the favorite quote of Keith Bulen)

"It is amazing how much can be accomplished when no one cares who gets credit for it."
- Anonymous

"The trainer doesn't make the horse, the horse makes the trainer."
- Delvin Miller

"What we do not understand is followed by assumptions."
- Unknown

"One falsehood spoils a thousand truths."
-An African Proverb

"Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
-Plato

"Do not hastily discharge a verbal arrow which may hurt someone,
a word which once uttered, can never be retrieved -even with an apology."
- Unknown

"Jumping to conclusions is not half as wise as digging for facts."
-Unknown

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."
-Samuel Smiles

"They always say time changes things, but YOU actually have to change them yourself."
-Andy Warhol

"Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set."
- Unknown

"People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do."
- Unknown

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments
of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times
of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

"The most ability is responsibility.
Nothing happens until someone steps forward and says, “You can count on me."
- Anonymous

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it."
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"A wise person learns by the experiences of others.
An ordinary person learns by his or her own experience.
A fool learns by nobody's experience."
- Unknown

"The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles."
- Anonymous

"Show class, have pride, and display character.  If you do, winning takes care of itself."
- Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913-1983)

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road...Unless you fail to make the turn."
- Anonymous

"Idea are funny little things...they won't work unless you do."
- Anonymous

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
- President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

"Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note;
today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely."
- Kay Lyons

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have."
– Abraham Lincoln

"Although the youth of America do not represent 100% of the population,
they do however represent 100% of the future."
– John F. Kennedy

  "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

  "Obstacles cannot crush me.  Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
– Leonardo da Vinci

  "If we attend…to the little things that we can do,
we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
– Samuel Butler  

  "I like to see a man proud of the place he lives..and so live that the place is proud of him."
– Abraham Lincoln  

"Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still."
- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them,
but by building a fire within them."
- Bob Nelson

"It is wise to keep in mind that people are not always what they appear to be" - Let It Out column of the Indianapolis Star Newspaper, January 4, 2004