—Thoughts for the Day—and the Day After, and the Day after That... All Ye Who Hunger and Thirst After Righteousness, Ruminate on This One Long and Hard, Daily

I have long written, in numerous books of mine (and I even made a bookmark and offered one for free with any book order; which offer no one has ever taken me up on), that my motto for the past few decades (which does not infer that I have stellarly accomplished it) has been—