I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.