"Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else."

“We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.”

Source : "Celebrated Jazz Musician Mose Allison Dies At 89". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 15, 2016.

“The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.”

Source : François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.235

“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”

Source : Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.”

“I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.”

“Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.”

“It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.”

“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.”