"Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons."

“Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.”

“No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.”

“I hope March is a guide for today's activists. It took raw courage for young people to volunteer to go to Mississippi in the summer of 1964, and unrelenting faith in the power of democracy to organize such a massive campaign.”

Source : "Five questions for John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. August 8, 2016.

“The resurrection stands related to righteousness in the same way that death stands related to sin.”

Source : Geerhardus Vos (2015). “Grace and Glory”, p.92, Booklassic

“When I am upset about something, it gives me a stomachache. I have to address it right away so that I don't make myself sick.”

Source : "Millennial Expert Chelsea Krost: Success, Social Media, and Unplugging". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either.”

“Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.”

Source : Alvar Aalto, Alvar Aalto-museo (1994). “Alvar Aalto: points of contact”

“I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.”