"Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised."

-- The Rev. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Protestant minister and author of The Power of Positive Thinking.

1 As a kid, Donald Trump attended New York's Riverside Church, where Norman Vincent Peale was pastor for years, and he paid close attention to Peale's preaching even as a kid. Can you tell? I read this a few months ago in the AMAC Journal.

2 Really Dana?  This is the first I've heard of that!

You rarely get information on Trump's prior life in any media because they don't want to humanize him.

But now that you mention it he does seem to put those principles in play.

3 Anything from AMAC is good. That's the conservative version of AARP, which is liberal -- and I hope you aren't a member of AARP, BTW. Too many people are without knowing their $$$ are going to the Dems.