The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

-- Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged"

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

-- Marcus Aurelius

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

-- Winston Churchill

Recently sent to me by a reader; I cannot establish the author, but it's wonderful:

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. 

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Can you think of a reason for not sharing this?  Neither could I......  

And a quote from the greatest thinker of the last century, Ayn Rand:

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."