"Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right."

“Whatever your situation, God wants to heal you, strengthen you, and lead you to a place where you can enjoy life again.”

“Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.”

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”

“I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

“Dim them lights get it in pimp tight do wat i do i lace up my own nikes.”

“I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.”

Source : "Chris Hughes’s Act III — Jumo.com, A Social Platform For Global Volunteerism" by Jose Antonio Vargas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

“Here's what I believe a soul is - at least this, I believe it's at least this. I believe that every kindness that we create in our lives, if it came because we were affected by a person we loved and lost, that person lives through that kindness. That's what a soul is.”

Source : "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", September 11, 2006.

“Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.”