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“A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.”
Source : Speech to United Nations General Assembly, New York, N.Y., 23 Sept. 2003
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“Hard work has paid off a whole lot.”
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“This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequalities.”
Source : "The Planet Neptune: An Exposition and History". Book by John Pringle Nichol, 1848.
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“So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.”
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“The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.”
Source : Berton Braley, “Opportunity”
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“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”
Source : Doctoral thesis, 1867.
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“About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.”
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“God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.”
Source : FaceBook post by Bob Goff from May 27, 2013 
