We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again

When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?

I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have

The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph

Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.

If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started.