Literate

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain

Anybody can watch TV; no intelligence required.

Forgiving

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. - J. K. Rowling

  Don't gloat; it makes forgiveness even more difficult.

Zoom

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry S. Truman

A pessimist sits; an optimist sprints.

Optimistic Hope

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. - Vaclav Havel

I hope he is right.

Stories

You've got to know your story. Learn to tell it. - Michael Berry

Mr. Berry's point is that you need to be able to sell yourself. You can't do that unless you have a good story and can tell it. What got you where you are? How have you changed? What makes you great? Practice by telling stories.

Battles and Wars

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and free men who win wars. - John Steinbeck

Free men following an inspirational leader win both battles and wars. Churchill and Patton come to mind.

Pushing Little Old Ladies

If one man pushes an old lady in front of an oncoming bus and another man pushes an old lady out of the way of an oncoming bus, to borrow Bill Buckley’s famous puncturing of moral equivalence arguments, it will not suffice to say that they are both the sorts of men who push old ladies around. - Jonah Goldberg

Details matter. It's called the whole truth.

Workers

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. - Sam Ewing

The good; the bad; the ugly.

Obsessive?

Is OCD a virtue, vice, strength or weakness? - Lyle

Unlisted

Keeping house ain't on my bucket list. - Lyle