"I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart."

“Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.”

Source : "Don’t Give More - Give in a Way that Matters More" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

“Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.”

Source : "Actor and Entrepreneur Cara Santana On being inspired by daily life, overcoming addiction, and taking risks". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.”

Source : Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.301

“The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.”

“By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.”

“America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.”

“If you are looking for truth, stick to the Way - for the truth is the Way. The truth is the destination to which you are going, and it is the Way by which you go. You are not going by one thing as your way to something else as your destination; you are not coming to Christ by something that is other than Christ. You are coming to Christ through Christ.”

Source : Mike Aquilina (2011). “A Year with the Angels: Daily Meditations with the Messengers of God”, p.123, TAN Books

“I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.”