In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated. — Cynthia Nelms

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished. — Frank Tebbets

If you can see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. — S. I. Hayakawa

The first mistake in public business is the going into it. — Benjamin Franklin