"I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be."

“My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.”

Source : "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Mark K. Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

“If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.”

“True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.”

Source : Cleveland Abbe (1893). “The Meteorological Work of the U. S. Signal Service, 1870 to 1891”

“A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.”

“As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.”

“To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.”

“There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.”

“For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.”