Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

 “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult...

 From President Reagan’s farewell address to the nation 1-11-89:The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the “shining city upon a hill.” The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What...

 The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan Remove the first five words from President Reagan’s quip and you’ve got something worth noting. It makes sense to be suspicious of anyone who...

 Many years ago during a local supervisors race I was tasked with developing a fundraiser for a local candidate. I owned a restaurant at the time and I had just finished rebuilding after a disastrous fire. We had moved the bar from the cellar to a large beautiful...

 Why did an 80-year-old widower who lives in a Newtown Square retirement community spend $50,000 to take out a full-page ad in last Sunday’s New York Times pleading for President Donald Trump to resign? Read the answer HERE.Text of the full page ad that an 80 year old...

 What is happening in America today is a well-planned organized old school Putsch. You might think it’s just Trump being Trump but that would be a serious mistake. Trump is a convenient tool who arrived on the scene at just the right time to be exploited. The Putsch...

 But what of the Roman Mob? They follow Fortune, as always, and hate whoever she Condemns. If Nortia, as the Etruscans called her, had favoured Etruscan Sejanus; if the old Emperor had been surreptitiously Smothered; that same crowd in a moment would have hailed Their...

 Mindless (Google’s English dictionary, Oxford Languages)Acting or done without justification or concern for the consequencesNot thinking of or concerned about(Of an activity) So simple or repetitive as to be performed automatically without thought or skill Will...

 David Foster Wallace started his 2005 commence speech to the graduating class at Kenyon with this short story:There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s...

“There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return. Perhaps, however, there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were...

In How Much Land Does A Man Need Leo Tolstoy offers a lesson in the downside of greed and overreach. I’ll summarize the key point of the story for those who haven’t read it. (Note: spoiler alert.)The story follows a Russian peasant named Pahom. He buys some land then...

 Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.     Niels Bohr, Nobel prize-winning physicistWe must always tell what we see.  Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.      Charles Peguy, poet, essayist and editor Just over a...