"From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume"

“A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.”

Source : Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas (1981). “Irving Babbitt, representative writings”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

“I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.”

“The 'Amazing' can only be created by facing fear, risk and failure during the process.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 18, 2017

“When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much.”

“Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.”

“Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.”

“I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.”

“[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.”

Source : Laura Esquivel (2001). “Swift as Desire: A Novel”, Crown Pub