When things in your life seem almost too much to handle...when 24 hours in a day is not enough...remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.

When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and start to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was. more...

• "The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." --Ronald Reagan
• "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." --Ronald Reagan
• "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." --Ronald Reagan
• "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." --Ronald Reagan
• "Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." --Ronald Reagan
• "The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." --Ronald Reagan
• "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." --Ronald Reagan
• "I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." --Ronald Reagan
• "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." --Ronald Reagan
• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." --Ronald Reagan
• "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." --Ronald Reagan
• "No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women." --Ronald Reagan