Favorite Quotes

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

Steve Jobs

"A virtue is a golden mean between two vices, one of excess and one of deficiency."

Aristotle

"There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it."

Romain Rolland

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Charles Dickens

"Somewhere something exciting is waiting to be discovered."

Carl Sagan

"The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they don't realize they're learning until it's too late."

Harold Edgerton

"You are what you read."

Oscar Wilde

"Who am I? Do you mean… where I'm from? What I one day might become? What I do? What I've done? What I dream? Do you mean… what you see or what I've seen? What I fear or what I dream? Do you mean who I love? Do you mean what I've lost? Who am I? I guess who I am is exactly the same as who you are. Not better than. Not less than. Because there is no one who has been or will ever be exactly the same as either you or me."

Sense8, Season 2, Episode 2, "Who Am I?"

"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. ... and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

Winston Churchill, "We Shall Fight on the Beaches", 1940

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who 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 great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

"The only thing I know for sure after all of this research is that if you're going to dare greatly, you're going to get your ass kicked at some point. If you choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That's why we call it courage. That's why it's so rare."

Brené Brown, Dare to Lead