* Fred: “When I was 20 I made up my mind to get rich”.   Karl: “But you never became rich”. Fred: “No. I decided it was easier to change my mind”.

@ The main reason we had admitted Alaska to the United States was that it would make Texas the second biggest state.

# Early in my career as a judge, I conducted hearings for those involuntarily committed to our state psychiatric hospital. On my first day, I asked a man at the door of the hospital, “Can you tell me where the court room is”? “Why”? He asked.    “I’m the judge”. Pointing to the building, he whispered, “Don’t tell them that, they’ll never let you out”.