Joe Brumit
Asheville and Western North Carolina

“If moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were and what you were doing and start from there.” ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Nothing is illegal if one hundred well-placed business men decide to do it.” ~Andrew Young

“Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” ~ William Durant

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality, to change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller.

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” ~ Henry Ford

“Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they’ve stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.” ~ Kevin Costner

“When in doubt tell the truth.” ~ Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ~ Mark Twain

“Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?” ~ Katharine Hepburn

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.” ~ Isaac Asimov

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams

“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.” ~ William E. Simon

“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” ~ Will Rogers

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” ~ Emma Goldman

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” ~ Winston Churchill

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.” ~ Milton Friedman

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” ~ Ross Perot

“The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It’s the party of non-voters.” ~ Robert Reich

“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

“We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.” ~ Kin Hubbard

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first” ~ Mark Twain

“I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.” ~ Earl Warren

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” ~ Henry Ford

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ~ William Faulkner

“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” ~ Mark Twain

“I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.” ~ Harry S. Truman

“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” ~ Thomas Alva Edison

“Love is a quality, not a quantity.” ~ Vanna Bonta

“Nothing endures but change.” ~ Heraclitus

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” ~ Henry Ford

“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” ~ Winston Churchill

“Contentment is the only real wealth.” ~ Alfred Nobel

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” ~ Aldous Huxley

“A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.” ~ Napoleon

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.” ~ Robert Frost

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” ~ Will Rogers

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” ~ Mark Twain

“It is much easier to be critical than correct.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” ~ Henry Ford

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” ~ Charlie Chaplin

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill

“One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no man can help another without helping himself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To the world you may be just be one person…but to one person you might just be the world.” ~ Mark Twain

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” ~ Seneca

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” ` Princess Diana

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” ~ James Barrie

“You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” ~ Ruth Smeltzer

“To give without any reward, or any notice has a special quality of its own.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.” ~ Washington Irving

“May you remember that love flows best when it flows freely, and it is in giving that we receive the greatest gift.” ~ Kate Nowak

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi

“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.” ~ William Somerset Maugham

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” ~ Thomas Payne

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” ~ Albert Einstein

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” ~ Indira Gandhi

“It is much easier to be critical than correct.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former.” ~ Albert Einstein

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” ~ Jean Paul Getty

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.” ~ Johnny Carson