"Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you."

“The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.”

“Know DEEPLY who you are in Christ or everything else will be tainted.”

“Promise is most given when the least is said.”

Source : George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.98

“You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.”

Source : Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

“Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.”

“An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in order to get what he needs. Interfering means getting in their way so that what you want is stronger than what they want.”

“Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.”

“There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.”