When Joker are wild someone else, usually gets the job!

The best defense is the truth.

Honor grows best in a field plowed by principle.

Never forget a lesson or the one who taught it,

Suspicion and caution tend to dress alike.

Learning requires you to get your hands dirty.

You must overcome your weakness with His strength.

When you are in the limelight others tend to turn green.

More motivation is caught than taught.

Blowing your own horn takes your breath away.

Discover what others want before you tell them what you can do.

The key to a solution is comprehending the problem.

Listen hard; speak carefully.

Understanding is strength not a weakness.

In the school of hard knocks, it is hard to listen.

Today is our anniversary of 45 years together on our way to forever,

What a joy my wife has been over these many years.

It seems so short but we must recognize that our lives have encompassed two wonderful children, two wonderful mates, for our children, and four perfect grandkids.

How blessed we are!

Forsaking self piety is a victory.

May your expectations be His expectations!

After you “face the music” make your own.

The next step is more telling than the last one.

To forgive others you must begin with yourself.

Confidentiality is non-negotiable.

Wisdom is harder to gain than knowledge.

Being a blessing is more important than receiving one.

Synchronize your work with your principles.

Be a propagator of imagination.

To be successful, you need to plan on being interrupted.

Manage your blind spots carefully.

Downsize you interest to develop focus.

See yourself as other need to see you.

Focus is a tool for the immediate.

Tell good truths of another.

Putting your best foot forward means at least one foot is not stuck in the mud.

Portray your goals in the context of your employer’s needs.

Your staff must succeed for you to succeed.

Time manages you or you manage it.

Be more bold than crafty.

Hope is the energy of success.

Voting requires great faith.

Success requires others.

Jobs are boring, opportunities are challenging.

Apply your best to doing your best.

Logic is no excuse to poor behavior.

Focus is indivisible energy.

Reason entertains many enemies.

Expect less for others while demanding more of yourself.

I am plagued by improbable possibilities of the impossible.

Caution and fear mimic one another.

May you be beholden only to good!

Your life is traced with indelible ink.

It is my marginal convictions that concern me most.

Often misery comes before the cure.

The most difficult failure is after you have done your best.

Pray before you fight, forgive afterwards.

The easier it comes the less it is appreciated.

Between here and there is the rest of your lives.

Diligence is a way of honoring yourself.

Good men dipped in politics often become rascals.

When counting your blessing, bring your biggest calculator.

Compassion is the fruit of integrity.

Give flowers to the living.

Make your next step the right one.

Open your mind to think and your heart to work.

Your encouragement may be someone’s last.

May you always anticipate happiness!

You gain the interest of others by understanding their needs.

May your passion be God’s passion!

Loneliness is a spiritual disconnect.

The chicken came before the egg.

Power is the weakness of men.

You court goodness with righteous.

The beginning is hard the end is pleasant.

Do more than you have , to gain more than you had.

Christians do not speculate they believe.

Each man has the same number of hours each day.

It is harder to be good than not.

Your life should explain itself.

The most convincing argument is when you gain respect.

The cost of sin is always more than the gain.

Sweat is the equity of accomplishment.

Love searches another for the good, better, and the best.

God never promised you a rose garden but He did give you a few roses.

Before you beg for mercy, give mercy.

Integrity is the bark of principle.

Failure in not final, only quitting is.

A stroke of genius usually occurs after hard work.

Never begin or end a day half full.

Excitement and joy are good friends, but not married.

Determinations change habits.

Thoughts scramble for attention.

Details are the measure of commitment.

Court righteousness with virtue.

Single minded people make fewer mistakes, but more often.

Discipline is the balance between can do and must do.

Forgiving is easier than forgetting.

Be careful not to do right in the wrong way.

Save for tomorrow by giving today.

Remarkable people are soon marked.

It is not have you have come or how far you are going but where you are going that counts.

He who speaks first pays the highest price.

Al things work for good even if we don’t want them to.

Integrity is the compass life.

Every life that succeeds has been full of helping hands.

Be careful where you leave your mark and even more careful on whom you leave it.

Marriage is a continually growing process.

The shadows in your life are less threatening than your attitudes.

People love because they want not because the have to.

Pray, perceive, plan, prepare and provide then you have done your best.

It is not how good you are, but how much good you do that counts.

Diligently search for the good in other peoples lives.

Ignore the pain of criticisms but not their lessons.

Selfishness is a sinkhole that swallows potential.

Joy is a privilege never live without it.

Unforgiveness is an open wound.

For her, time is better than flowers.

Love on purpose and everyone will be better off.

We tend to be liberal while judging our motives and conservative in judging others.

How often should we have said “I am sorry”?

Helping the poor is a way of bring honor to yourself, but not the reason.

The lessons of failure are scars that bear knowledge.

Education frees your potential.

The last laps are the most difficult and the most important.


May the smile on your soul warm the hearts of others!

Often thinking is only the manipulation of special interest.

Laziness is drunkenness of the mind.

We all have both liberal and conservative issue in our lives.

Which is better buying and selling or giving and receiving?

Attitude is the key ingredient in happiness.

Pride is the hammer, selfishness the nail and shattered lives the result.

Love never injuries its object.

May you have open eyes an open mind and unmovable principles!

My thought yesterday was for my sister and her love for her son and daughters. This thought is of my nephew and his life.

He was surprised, honored, and thankful all at the same time I am sure. However, as good as this is it likely rates about fifth in his life accomplishment.

The first being the acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savor and the joy and peace that eternal decision has brought him.

Second, would be His wedding day with His bride Amy.

Third, would be the birth of his daughter Emma.

Forth, the birth of his son Philip, on his great grandmother’s birthday.

Eric is man, growing in God, someone who enjoy his family, and friends. He will have to speak for himself but I think these would be the order of best days of his life.

Eric, may you will have many new best days to insert into his life.

Congratulations again Eric: Brigadier General Eric Robert Gladman

My thought for the day today is for my sister, Sinah, who hastened off to Glory a few years ago. I think of her often and fondly; her having taken flight way too soon. Her son was promoted to Brigadier General this past week. Eric was stunned and humbled by the promotion but his mom would have known that he deserved every bit of this ceremony.

She had the unique ability to cry and laugh at the same time and she would have been anything but humbled. His mother would have beamed a mother type smile of thankfulness at the recognition. She loved her "kids" more than most mothers seemed to and the honor she felt would have been for them more than her. She would have enjoyed the limelight more than even Eric because he was her little boy.

Congratulations to Eric, his sisters Kaaryn and Amy Ruth, who helped him learn patience and humility, to his wonderful wife Amy, who was the brains and steady hand behind the "boss", to his children Emma and Philip, who bring him the same joy Eric brought his mother and this uncle last week. All of them helped Eric become a General.

As I talked with my dad, who is ninety-three, last night about this he answered with a smile in his voice, with only one simple word ---Wonderful.

Congratulations Brigadier General Eric Robert Gladman!

Imagination sets its own limits.

Remember the lesson forget the messenger.

Having the best that money can by will never replace making the best of what you have.

Truth haunts the unbeliever.

Measure your success by how many lives that you have bettered.

Knowledge is only as good as its application.

Purpose is the fuel of accomplishment.

Responsibility can be both a blessing and a burden.

In marriage respect is something you earn over and over again.

Failure and being a failure are vastly different.