[Talewinds]

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you survive."
- Mark Twain

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
-George Washington


"The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep," George Washington wrote. "Few know the predicament we are in."

"It is better to deserve without receiving, than to receive without deserving"
-Robert Greene Ingersoll

"Pain is Temporary, quitting is forever."
-Lance Armstrong

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious"
-Uncredited

"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master."
-Dwight Eisenhower

“When you drive a Boxster instead of a 911 everyone knows your life has not turned out quite as well as you had hoped.”
-Jeremy Clarkson

"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal."
-Mario Andretti

"It's easy to make a lot of money, if that's all you want to do is make a lot of money."
-Citizen Kane’s Mr. Bernstein

"The writing it would seem is on the wall. And what is written is that the venerable and venerated 911 is in the twilight of its years. ... It's difficult to see the demand or the car lasting more than a couple more years. ... The 911 is as good as it can be made"
-Road and Track, August 1980

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
-Thomas Jefferson

"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both"
-Benjamin Franklin

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
-Thomas Paine

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
-John Wooden

"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."
-Alexis de Tocqueville

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
-Vince Lombardi

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character”
-Albert Einstein


“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
-Theodore Roosevelt

“Success is not the key to happiness, rather, happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
-Albert Schweitzer

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
-Harry Truman

"Everything I lacked in knowledge and experience I tried to make up for with watchfulness and industry"
-Nathaniel Greene confiding in John Adams