"Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life"

“Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.”

“The most-praised generation goes to work”

“The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.”

Source : Niall Ferguson (2008). “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World”, p.9, Penguin

“Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.”

“If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.”

“Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.”

Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hacterus ... : with a Portrait of the Author”, p.261

“What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!”

Source : George Sterling, “The Testimony Of The Suns”

“The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.”

Source : 'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 11