The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Francis Schaeffer

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.

Derek Fisher

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

George Chapman

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

Albert Einstein

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

Marcia Wallace

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Francis Quarles

Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

An Wang