Jasper Jottings —————————————- The achievement journal of my fellow alums

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.” — Boethius

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. — Karen S. Magee

“There are many things the government can’t do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.”

~ Lord Acton (1834–1902)

‘An Educated man is the the one who has so developed the faculties of his mind, so that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.’ —— Napoleon Hill, the Author of “Think and Grow Rich”

“You may make some mistakes, but learn from them and go on. Find out what you really enjoy doing and pursue it to the fullest. Whatever you do, wherever you go, have confidence in yourselves, work energetically to make a positive personal impact to help improve the human condition, and in so doing reap the ultimate satisfaction.”

George J. Galasso `54
Honorary Doctor of Science
October 14, 2007

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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” - General George Patton

“Productive class Americans are sick of being menaced by [things] their parents naively thought were being created to protect them. They’re sick of being looted by officials with five and six-digit salaries. Sick of being decimated by one senseless war after another, arranged, conveniently, for almost every generation. Sick of being wooed and cast aside in two- and four- and six-year cycles by public figures they wouldn’t trust alone with their children. Doubtless the American productive class have made foolish choices in the past. Doubtless they’ll make them again in the future. But in the end, the American productive class will triumph, precisely because they ARE productive, while their enemies are not.”

- L. Neil Smith

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