A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

Did he actually believe in this curse? A curse! He snorted. Deirdre stirred. Impossible. Curses were for witches, spell casters and the weak-minded.

Always follow your passion to be successful.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.

A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.