"We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be."

“There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.”

Source : "CNN Live Today" with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

“Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.”

“Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.”

“Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.”

Source : Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company

“Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.”

“There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love.”

“My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.”

“You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.”

Source : "Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. July 28, 2010.