Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

All true wealth is biological. Lois McMasters Bujold, “Mirror Dance”

I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best. The Rock

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Webster

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Joseph Heller, Catch 22

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more. Eric Hoffer, True Believer or Theory of leisure class

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind. Wilfred Funk

It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself. Epictetus, Enchiridion