Car and Driver magazine stated, “The Camry Clone Gets the Broom.” The much-maligned ES250 did significantly better than we all expected from a sales standpoint, but the completely redesigned ES300 would be a welcomed addition to the Lexus line-up. Its styling...
I look to the future because that is where I’m going to spend the rest of my life. (George Burns, 20th century American comedian) Sometimes we say things that have a greater truth than merely the humor of the moment. If we are nostalgic and “live” mostly in the past,...
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. (Thomas Paine, American revolutionary political activist) Planted in the heart of every human being, it seems, is the desire to be free, to express himself or...
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them and do nothing. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist) If you remember that Einstein lived during the years of Germany’s Third Reich with its horrible atrocities in World...
The car market was recovering from the Gulf War, but was still not showing much strength. Truck sales were down 8% with car sales tracking about 12% behind the 1990 sales pace. Sales in the luxury coupe market were down even more from previous years. The SC400...
Man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright) This line is from one of Wilde’s plays in answer to the question, “What is a cynic?” Whatever was intended to be the significance of the statement in the play, it certainly...
You need an attitude of service. (David Green, businessman, philanthropist) Green continues: “You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.” Not only can you develop skills as you serve, but you will also learn to persist in...
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. (Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) Taxes are an essential part of modern civilization, but when tax day comes (that’s today in the United States), we all try to find ways to lower our...
Wealth is not the problem. The relentless pursuit and love of wealth to the exclusion of loving and serving other people is. (Johnston Moore, children’s advocate) People who don’t have much of this world’s goods often decry the wealth of the affluent. They sometimes...
Those who conceal their sins do not prosper, but those who confess and renounce them find mercy. (The Bible) We all make mistakes and sometimes they are grievous and harmful to others. That’s bad enough, of course, but what may be even worse is the attempted cover-up,...
Jim Mateja, the auto writer for the Chicago Tribune, wrote, “Have you had it up to here with all that’s been said and written about the Japanese outwitting the domestics at every turn? Then you’d better not read on, or you’ll upchuck. Yes, they’ve done it...
It is easy to fly into a passion—anybody can do that—but to be angry . . . in the right way—that is not easy. (Aristotle, 4th century B.C. Greek philosopher) His more complete statement: “... to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time...