"If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it."

“You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.”

“Most nations have some type of creation story.”

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

“The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.”

Source : Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1795). “The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..”, p.48

“My future's about trying to be a better man”

“A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 15, 2013

“Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.”

“It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.”