A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread. Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. You may delay, but time will not.
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.
No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost. When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. Procrastination is the thief of time. It is easier to be critical than correct. Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.