Teach us to number our days.

— Psalm 90

It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself or herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he or she fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his or her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

— Teddy Roosevelt

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

— William Blake

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

— T. S. Eliot

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of one’s own soul.

— David O. McKay 

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

— Susan Ertz

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!

— Teddy Roosevelt

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

— SAMUEL JOHNSON

Bad teams, nobody leads. Good teams, coaches lead. Great teams, everybody leads.

— John bacon

By three methods we may learn wisdom. First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

— Confucius

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

— Lao Tzu

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

— voltaire

The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield -- however the fates may play -- we march always in the ranks of honor.

— Winston Churchill

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

— Helen Keller

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

— Martin Luther King

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

— Martin Luther King

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi, a leader of India always travelled third-class in a train. Somebody once asked, "You are a leader of this country, why do you travel third-class?" Mahatma Gandhi's reply was, "I travel third-class because there is no fourth-class.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There go my people, I must run to catch up with them for I am their leader.

— Mahatma Ghandi

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

— John Adams

Your time is limited; don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

— Steve Jobs

“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”

— Thomas Edison

I feel calm. I feel ready. I can only conclude that's because I don't have a full grasp of the situation.

— Mark Adler, JPL's Mars deputy mission manager

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

— Philip Carr-Gomm

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

— Anaïs Nin

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

— Bruce lee

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Adversity does not build character; adversity reveals character.

— Sandy Dahl

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending and speak without offending.

— Dan S. White

Not all who experience hardship grow to greatness, but most who achieve greatness have endured hardship.

— Ray Pittman

We’re all trying to be someone else.

— Pete Marczyk

What would you dare to dream if you knew you would not fail?

— Brian Tracy

You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way.

— Mikaela Shiffrin

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

— Author Unknown

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

— Basho

Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses – especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

— Leonardo da Vinci

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

— Buckminster Fuller

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.

— Niels Bohr to Wolfgang Pauli

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

— Niels Bohr

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

— Niels Bohr to albert einstein

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

— Albert Einstein

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

— Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

— Albert Einstein

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.

— Albert Einstein

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

— Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

— Albert Einstein

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

— Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

— Albert Einstein

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

— Richard Feynman

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

— Alvin Toffler

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

— Brene Brown

Don’t worry about people stealing yours ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

— Howard H. Aiken

People who live in the intersection of social worlds are at higher risk of having good ideas.

— RON BURT

A vision without execution is an hallucination.

Jeffrey E. Garten

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

― Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

― Socrates

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

― Leonardo Da Vinci

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

— Thomas Fuller

Vision without action is only dreaming, action without vision is merely wasting time, but vision with action can change the world.

— Nelson Mandela

Hope has two children. The first is anger at the way things are. The second is courage to do something about it.

 — St. Augustine

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

— Marcus Aurelius

en seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself.

— Marcus Aurelius

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Achilles; fortune hath not one place to hit me.

— Sir Thomas Browne

It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.

— Ricky Fitts in American Beauty

I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.

— Lester Burnham in American Beauty

I don’t have one minutes regret, it was a glorious experience.

— Moreese Bickham, on his 37 year false imprisonment for a crime he didn’t commit

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

— Baltasar Gracian

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

 — Bertrand Russell

Not all those who wander are lost.

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

 — Viktor Frankl

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

— Viktor Frankl

After the day's struggle there is no freedom like unfettered thoughts, no sound like the music of silence. And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.

— Max Ehrmann

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't.

— Thomas A. Edison

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.

— richard feynman

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

— Michael Jordan

To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.”

— concept of ephmeralization by Buckminster Fuller

Focusing is about saying no.

— Steve Jobs

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

— C.G. Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

— C.G. Jung

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

— C.G. Jung

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

— C.G. Jung

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

— C.G. Jung

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

— William Strunk

This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.

— Gary Provost

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.

— Stephen King

I apologize for the length of this letter but I didn't have time to make it shorter.

— Goethe? Pascal? Jefferson? Twain? Hemingway?

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

— Woodrow Wilson

Progress never ceases… but is always presumed to have

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments.

Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus in 10 A.D.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, all that remains is more and more precise measurement.

Lord Kelvin, 1900

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.

 Workers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.

Western Union internal memo, 1876

The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered.

Albert Michelson

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Sir William Preece, chief engineer at the British Post Office, 1878

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. - 1911

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

Lee DeForest, inventor

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

H.M. Warner, Warner Bros., 1927

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

There will never be a bigger plane built.

A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people 1933

The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.

Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night,

Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946

There a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons.

Popular Mechanics, 1949

The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at most.

IBM executives to the eventual founders of Xerox, 1959

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.

Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market.

Business Week, August 2, 1968

But what...is it good for?

Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

Ken Olsen, founder of mainframe-producer Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

Steve BallmeR

Attributes important to me

Empathy
Curiosity
Courage
Gratitude

Our wedding vows

We vow to protect our love.

We vow to protect our love from selfishness, considering each other’s needs before our own.

We vow to protect our love through patience, never allowing life’s daily challenges to interrupt our caring for one another.

We vow to protect our love from doubt, never violating each other’s trust.

We vow to protect our love from complacency, remembering our love is precious and requires our attention and effort.

We vow to nurture our love.

We vow to nurture our love through communication, both hearing and listening, never concealing our thoughts, so that we may know each other’s needs and desires.

We vow to nurture our love with empathy, taking each other’s needs and desires as our own, providing solutions when we can, and understanding when we can’t.

We vow to nurture our love by sharing our ambitions, goals, and paths so that we may walk through life together.

We vow to nurture our love by caring for our own selves, being our best, so that we may be worthy of the love we are given.  

We vow to demonstrate our love.

We vow to demonstrate our love for each other through affection knowing just a touch of the hand reaffirms our commitment.

We vow to demonstrate our love through mutual respect making it known that we value each other above all else.

We vow to never cease being sweethearts.

We will remember and practice these vows today and everyday