I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

Cassandra Clare

We wait for the day to come when men will turn as eagerly to the work of converting their material wealth into real life values as they are now devoting themselves to mere acquisition. When that time comes the successful business man will stop short in his impetuous career, and ask himself if it really pays to sacrifice life with all its varied, but fast-fleeting opportunities, to an aim so narrow and sordid. Then the multimillionaire will not seek to rid himself of a useless burden by indiscriminate giving, but will study with infinite pains to restore for the happiness and welfare of all mankind those vast riches that society itself has enabled him to accumulate. Then all forms of outward wealth will mean nothing but opportunity for inward growth and expansion. The search for truth, the love of beauty in nature and art, the enthusiasm for humanity, the passion for the ideal, the glow of hope and aspiration, all these, growing up within the soul of man will take up these modern material gifts, in themselves so inert and useless, and make them radiant with a value they do not now possess. Somehow or other this dead world of matter into which, in our western civilization, especially, we have buried too much of our life, must be made to render back the vital treasure of which it has despoiled us. Our world must be spiritualized or it will grow more and more stale and dull and unsatisfactory on our hands. Not to our captains of industry, not to our developers of material wealth must we look for life and life more abundant in the future; but ever to those men who, with some inward illumination, will

Loren B. Macdonald, Life in the

To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, 'I'm still alive -- a miracle.' And so I keep on pushing.

JacquesYves Cousteau, Said at ag

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Helen Keller

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

She Eleanor Roosevelt got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

Ralph McGill

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Hubert Humphrey

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.

Kyle Schmid

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Thomas Henry Huxley