"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln, US President
"The measure of the man is what he does with power." -- Pittacus (650-569 BC)"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most." - Thucyclides
"George Washington was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power." -- Robert Frost"A philosopher is an intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted." -- Alan Watts US philosopher "The Way of Liberation," 1983.
"An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike." -- Spiro T. Agnew
"I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was interesting: a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, US president and military leader "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." --Harry S Truman (Senator and later President of US). "If you're going through hell, keep going." -- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author“My half-century in business plus a lifetime of living in Washington, DC proves absolute immutability of ‘DALY’S LAW’ which states: “Everything takes longer and costs more.” -- -– John Jay Daly, President. Daly Communications of Chevy Chase, Maryland
"A keen sense of humor helps us overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable." -- Billy Graham (1918-)US evangelist
"All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." -- Robert Orben“Want to hear quiet laugh? Tell God your plans? -- ancient proverb JJD often quotes
"In the good old days beer foamed and drinking water didn't." – Author Unknown
"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." -- Unknown"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." -- J.G. Holland"If you really want something you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce lottery numbers!" -- Homer Simpson
“Most business speeches are too long and too dull so my job as a speechwriter and coach is to shorten ‘em and inject appropriate, light-hearted humor.” -- John Jay Daly."All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -- Galileo Galilee
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." -- Helen Keller
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." -- Eric Hoffer
"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen." -- Sarah Brown
“Since we’re not going to get out of this life alive it helps to get serious and learn my proven 4-point plan making it easy to ‘humorize’ your life.” –- John Jay Daly