I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only “suggestions” and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.