"Whether these people will endure it, I do not know; but I know very well that no man will who has a sword!" - Lucius Verginius, in Livy's History of Rome*

Eight ways to use misbehavior as an opportunity to build character.

There's a story about the greatest of all heroes, Achilles.

"[A] program should always respond to the user in the way that astonishes him least." - Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times."

"Fasting is the guardian of chastity." - Thomas Aquinas

"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, but we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then." - Cat's in the Cradle, song by Harry Chapin

I recently learned my liver cancer had gotten more aggressive.

When speaking of differences between men and women, we must speak in general terms, because man and woman are more alike than unlike, and though they may strive to reach the true home of the soul by separate ways, yet the home is ultimately the same.