The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Ignition (n): The motivational process that occurs when your identity becomes linked to a long-term vision of your future. Triggers significant amounts of unconscious energy; usually marked by the realization: That is who I want to be.

 Daniel Coyle

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is any delay in that feedback loop between thinking of something and seeing it and building on it, then there is this whole world of ideas which will never be.

Bret Victor

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Ella Maillart

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

To be with God.

Confucius

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Anna Jameson

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.

Deepak Chopra

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Alan Alda

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

Donald Miller

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Robert Morgan