Thursday, November 11, 2010

"[George] Washington shared [John] Adam's contempt for British presumptions of superiority. The fact that he had once been rejected for a commission in the British army did not strike Washington as a measure of his inferiority so much as a statement of their stupidity." ---Joseph J. Ellis in American Creation

"You are a fertile seed of the creator of all things, destined not to lie dormant, but to spring forth from the soil called life, and grow upward toward the unlimited horizons—overcoming all obstacles in the process.  It is your destiny to tap your talents and to achieve all that of which you believe yourself to be worthy . . . to love more, anticipate more, overcome more, plan more, attract more, and to enjoy more than you ever dreamed possible." ---Jim Rohn in The Seasons of Life

"We are a product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response." ---Stephen R. Covey in The 8th Habit