People’s confidence in their own judgment and discernment is the one commodity that should always be sold short.
Aug 292022
Self-Loving
We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don’t blow them, who will?
—DeWitt
Aug 242022
What is called listening usually resembles Scrabble; you look for a hook to hang your own words on.
Jun 272022
Don’t follow the money — there’s too much of it around. Follow the status. Of that there can never be enough.
Apr 012022
No man accounts for his failures without resort to misfortune or injustice, and when they do not exist, he invents them.
Mar 082022
You’re right. Now what?
Feb 152022
Official authorities wonder endlessly why they are reviled and distrusted without ever arriving at the notion that they may be vile and untrustworthy.
Feb 102022
Improvement rarely begins in reflection on how wonderful you already are.
Jan 032022
Things were so much better when you were.
Nov 162021
That warm, fuzzy feeling when you know you have done right? Nothing is to be trusted less.
Oct 292021
The fundamental human need, once the physical have been met, is to look good.