Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

When positive attitudes meet with faith, courage, consistency and perseverance, miracles tend to happen.

Life isn't a promise

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

We all say things when we are trying to get elected.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being.

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.