The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
All things are difficult before they are easy.