You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want.

- Zig Ziglar

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."

- Bob Hope

If you look at paintings of the Last Supper which were painted over the last 1000 years, you'll notice that food portion size has been increasing.

I guess what was a meal back then is only considered a snack now.

According to a recent survey by The Conference Board, just 45 percent of workers are satisfied with their jobs, down significantly from 61 percent in 1987.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

- Gail Godwin

I disagree with this. Theater is a component, but a bigger one is being present and connecting with everyone.

Tip for when you're going on a long drive alone -

If you have long hair trap some of it in the sun roof, so that if you start nodding away, you are woken up.

Note to reader:
This is a joke. If you follow this tip and get into an accident, you are not allowed to sue me...

The US tax code is 70,000 pages long.

Also on taxes:

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
- Will Rogers

Ancient Egyptians believed two questions determined whether or not they would be allowed to proceed on to the afterlife:

Did you find joy?
Did you bring joy?

You know you work in a creative business when you're having a business dinner in Brazil and a country-CEO from the region sitting at your table says that the dessert (fried banana with vanilla ice cream) looks like "Michael Jackson's p****, black & white."

Life is like a roll of toilet paper.

The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

- unknown

Happiness tips for lawyers

Tip #1: Quit law.
Tip #2: Do what makes you happy.

- seen on abovethelaw.com

In Turkey the DUI punishment is that you are driven 12 miles out of town and forced to walk back.

Only When the last tree
Has been cut down
And the last river
Has dried to a trickle
Will man finally realise
That we cannot eat money
And reciting old proverbs
Makes you sound like a twat

- Banksy, “Wall And Piece”

Do you pirate media you already own? If so, is that unethical? For example, you bought a CD a long time ago, it's currently in a box at your parent's home, and you download a track.

This is a good discussion topic for law students.

If you purchase media in one format, is that a license to use it in any format?

Eating mostly vegetables, fruit and grains should become second nature. It's what we call the 'plate flip.' Meat shouldn't be the star of the plate.

- Registered dietitian Connie Guttersen

3% of Americans are vegetarian. 23% of consumers are eating more meatless entrées than they did a year ago. 40% of nonvegetarians say they sometimes order vegetarian or vegan menu items just because they sound good.

From http://www.rimag.com/article/452341-Menu_Trends_Meatless_Mains.php

Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

- Morihei Ueshiba

Being with and around locals and getting a sense of what they're like is as important as seeing/experiencing the major sites when travelling to a new place.

When it comes to being juiced, baseball players and wrestlers have nothing on cows.

U.S. Cattle producers have about 30 products at their disposal to beef up their beef. Some are estrogens, androgens and progestins, and according to a University of Minnesota study, these steroids contribute an additional 700 million pounds of beef per year. Poor cows. If only we all knew what the producers are doing to them.

Trashion: any wearable item or accessory that is constructed using all or part of materials that have been recycled, including clothing that has been thrifted and reconditioned.