Like a great ship, this season has run aground. Dawn and dusk alternate at an old man's pace. I live alone in an area known as the 'Waterside', writing a book akin to the Revelations of St. John.

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.