The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own