We owe our elders nothing!
All that they do for us
is by way of favor only.
For it is only by means of conscience
that a favor becomes a debt. -Mark
Younger people are still laboring under the illusion that they can accomplish everything if they just move fast enough. -Mark
The second most important lesson we have to learn is discretion. --Mark
Why settle for being credible when you can be incredible. -Mark
When your aspirations meet your limitations, the one you choose to change defines you. -Mark
Opportunity is often missed because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison
When you are ready to listen to the universe, wherever you are will do just fine. -Mark
Abiding principles do not direct the path that we take; they mark the boundaries we will not cross. -Mark
We must be keenly sensitive to the fact that not everything we say is inspired. -Mark
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good"
- Unknown. (special thanks to my son Daniel for contributing this one)
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." -J.D.Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
When you pray, be not as the hypocrites who love to pray standing in the temples and on the street corners, that they may be seen of other men. Verily, they shall have their reward. Matthew 6:5
From whom much has been given, much is expected. -Luke 12:48
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. -William Shakespeare
History is art, and we are all painters. -Mark
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use -Galileo Galilei