It’s not an optical illusion. It just looks like one.

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. -Benjamin Franklin-

If the world was a logical place, men would ride horses sidesaddle.

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: “I served in the United States Navy.” -John F. Kennedy-

The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good. -H.L. Mencken-

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. -H.L. Mencken-

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction. -George W. Bush-

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. -C. S. Lewis-