"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." -- Mae West

"It is easier to fool people than to convince people they have been fooled" Mark Twain

"Shit or get off the pot"

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein (one of my favorite writers)

Well behaved women rarely make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"Live as if it is your last day, learn as if you are going to live forever", Gandhi

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
—Oscar Wilde

“Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid.” ― Patricia Alexander

Wherever you go...there you are. ---Buckaroo Bonzai.

“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose..." (KK 1969?)

Life sucks, and then you die!

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Be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have....
Clint Easwood, Unforgiven.....

I (you) couldn't get lucky in a womans prison with a handful of pardons...

"A man's got to know his limitations." C. Eastwood - The Eiger Sanction

I love this rant: “Heterosexual relationships seem to lead only to marriage, and for most poor dumb brainwashed women marriage is the climactic experience. For men, marriage is a matter of efficient logistics: the male gets his food, bed, laundry, TV, pussy, offspring and creature comforts all under one roof, where he doesn't have to dissipate his psychic energy thinking about them too much - then he is free to go out and fight the battles of life, which is what existence is all about.

But for a woman, marriage is surrender. Marriage is when a girl gives up the fight, walks off the battlefield and from then on leaves the truly interesting and significant action to her husband, who has bargained to 'take care' of her. What a sad bum deal.

Women live longer than men because they really haven't been living. Better blue-in-the-face dead of a heart attack at fifty than a healthy seventy-year old widow who hasn't had a piece of life's action since girlhood.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death - Mame

It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.”

Unforgiven

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country," President John F. Kennedy said in his Inaugural Address. His words hit me in the center of my 10-year-old chest.

I got a Master's of Public Administration degree because I get the greatest reward from doing work that helps other people.

Since 2006 as a volunteer college mentor, I have helped minority and low income students write essays for college and scholarship applications.

One of my best success stories is Brenda, who won $269,455 in scholarships in 2016. Brenda plans to become a medical doctor and pathologist. She wants to cure diseases.

"I am a beacon of hope for my neighborhood," Teresa, 18, said in 2015. "My younger siblings and neighbor kids look up to me. I am inspiring them to get good grades, stay in school, not drop out, not get pregnant, and go to college."

A week ago, Wenatchee High School gave me a "Scholarship Rockstar" award.

There's a thousand great Kurt Vonnegut quotes but this is my favorite:

The greatness of a nation and it's moral progess can be judged by the way they treat their animals.

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!

“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidding seas.”