To the best of my knowledge, I do not intend to applaud too much, nor degrade the Country I am in, I believe I speak the simple truth.

They stimulate insights, they help us gain access to implicit or tacit knowledge, and they can also be a stimulant to make new connections.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; /neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

War between Old England and the Bostonians is expected according to all reports we can hear. Various reports are circulating, the New England people with us compares Old England with New, as a chip of potage.