Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. - Immanuel Kant, in Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mankind
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. ~ Timothy Bentley ~
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. - Mortimer Adler, A Vision of the Future : Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society (1984). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Work