Rushing to work, I was driving too fast and as a result was pulled over by the highway patrol. The state trooper noticed that my shirt had the name of a local high school on it.
"I teach math there," I explained.
The trooper smiled, and said, "Okay, here's a problem. A teacher is speeding down the highway at 16 m.p.h. over the limit. At $12 for every mile, plus $40 court costs, plus the rise in her insurance, what's her total cost?"
I replied, "Taking that total, subtracting the low salary I receive, multiplying by the number of kids who hate math, then adding to that the fact that none of us would be anywhere without teachers, I'd say zero."
He handed me back my license.
"Math was never my favorite subject," he admitted. "Please slow down."
Goodman was a moderately successful stockbroker who dreamed of making the big money someday.
"God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them."
"The tone with which you begin a conflict is one of the most important predictors of the outcome. Begin softly and lovingly. You'll end up in a better place."
A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a day... 30,000 to a man's 15,000.