"The happiness in your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

-- Marcus Aurelius

“Look at a man in the mist of doubt and danger, and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is” 

-- Lucretius

"A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one, finds a treasure."

--Sirach 6:14 

“Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.”

--Thucydides

“Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.”

-- Juvenal

"Yield Not to evil... Tu Ne Cede Malis"

-- Virgil (Aeneid)

“Proclaim the Gospel. Use words only when necessary.”

-- Saint Francis of Assisi

“I die the King’s good servant, and God’s first.”

-- Thomas More

"It doesn't matter who is right but what's right."

-- Unknown

“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”

-- Samuel Johnson

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”

-- Thomas Paine

"In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices."

-- Ben Franklin

"There is no education like adversity."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

-- William James

"Learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live, living to serve"

-- Future Farmers of America 

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

-- Winston Churchill

“People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.”

-- Elie Wiesel

"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, it's what you leave behind when you go... "

--Three Wooden Crosses sung by Randy Travis

"But sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can." 

--Napoleon Hill

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

--Abraham Lincoln

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

--Edmund Burke

"What a man's mind can create, man's character can control."

--Thomas Edison

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

--George Halas

“Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.”

 --Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

“The market for something to believe in is infinite.”

-- Hugh Macleod

Michael is an advocate, author and public speaker. He has over 32 years of Washington experience working closely with the government, political, corporate, and technology sectors. He is the founder and principal of Kerrigan & Associates, Inc., a Washington-based management consulting and lobbying firm focused on creating business opportunities in the government contracts area.

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