Quote of the Day

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."

Mark Twain

Character

"Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."

Evan Esar

Swindles

"It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are."

O. Henry

Alive....

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Character and reputation...

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Unknown

Inspiration and survival

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."

Sir Winston Churchill