Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Steve Jobs

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Juvenal

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Abraham Lincoln

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

Jennifer Garner

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

Grace Hansen

The difference between goals and mission is reflected in the difference between I want to get married and I want to have a successful marriage.

Source Unknown

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Alan Perlis

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Pietro Aretino

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Harry Segall

People first, then money, then things.

Suze Orman