Mark Brown:  

Mark is from Newbury Park, California. Mark's schools include Newbury Park High School, William H. Taft High School, Calvert Elementary School, Parkman Junior High School. Mark worked as a Systems Engineering Manager in the Defense business for 41 years., Mark's favorite quotes are: "Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret," wrote 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in his political novel, Coningsby. "The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” ― Plato "We cannot experience the greatest things in life and happiness without allowing ourselves to become vulnerable to sadness and experiencing loss. We don't truly feel the highs in life if we don't also feel the lows from time to time." ― Nora Lee Brown “As for happiness, it has hardly more than one useful quality, namely to make unhappiness possible. In our happiness, we should form very sweet bonds, full of confidence and attachment, in order that the sundering of them may cause us that priceless rendering of the heart which is called unhappiness.” ― Marcel Proust. "Getting even has a high cost. What is taken from the one avenged is far less than what ...Expand for more