"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." ~ Arthur C. Clarke

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." ~ Omar Bradley

"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." ~ Yogi Berra

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1882 - American Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home at St. Joseph. (And Elton John gets a pretty good song out of it)

"Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons." ~ Lillian Gordy Carter

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1513 - Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition first sight Florida.

“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the National Debt.”  ~ Herbert Hoover

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  1962 – John Glenn becomes 1^st American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7.

“Every man dies.  Not every man really lives.”  ~  William Wallace

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  1861 – Abraham Lincoln declared US President in Washington, DC.