I am different from ordinary people. I drink from the Great Mother's breasts.

- from the Tao Te Ching

Saw this on a website, and I think the count is off a bit...

Krispy Kreme Expanding Into Thailand
302,837,616,408,595 people shared this.

Take the time to figure out your purpose in life. For those that do, it's very valuable. Otherwise later on you'll look back and wonder what you did with all the time.

Fines are a tax for doing bad. Taxes are a fine for doing well.

The Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service found that one-third of chicken sold in the U.S. as "natural" was pumped up with additives that boosted sodium content and weight.

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