“Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.” -Randy Paush

“If not you, who? If not now, when?”

“You cannot plow a field by turning it in your head.”

“Make your life an exclamation, not an explanation.”

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present.”

“To not decide, is to decide.” -MLK

“Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment” -Oprah

“I never let schooling interfere with my education.” -Mark Twain

“I know who I am and who I may be if I choose.” -Don Quxiote

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.  If we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
– Howard Zinn’s autobiography, “You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train”
If you have answers to the questions you’ve asked in your lifetime, you aren’t asking big enough questions    –Darren Zook

Beginning speakers focus on the self; good speakers focus on the content; GREAT speakers focus on the audience.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder (William Joseph Slim)

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. –Ray Bradbury

You get what you want by helping others get what they want.

Buy-in with Emotion, justify with fact

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the oens who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like a fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”  –Jack Kerouac

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self.
- Aldous Huxley

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell

Talent wins games; teamwork wins championships (Michael Jordon)

If there are no stakes, people will drop you like a hot potato (Felipe Gutierrez)

Lift as you climb.

No rain, no rainbows.

Regrets are mistakes you don’t learn from.

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

“The Road to hell is paved on good intentions”

“If you don’t have a head, at least you have legs

“Wander, there is no road–you make the path by walking”.

“People won’t remember what you say, but they won’t forget how you made them feel”

“Write your sad times in sand. Write your good times in stone”. -George Bernard Shaw

“Better to lose your ego to the one you love than to lose the one you love because of your ego” John Keats

One today is worth two tomorrows -Ben Franklin

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” —William H. Murray

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure to embrace the new. But there is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power” -A. Cohen

“Service is the rent we pay for living”

“It isn’t about knowing the meaning of life, but experiencing it”

“Your biggest liability is your need to succeed. Success is like a bright white tuxedo. You feel terrific wen you get it, but then you’re desperately afraid of getting it dirty or spoiling it in any way”

“If you could laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you’re drunk”.    –Conan O’brien

Political science without history is like a tree without any roots. History without political science is like a tree without any fruit.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone

When you stumble, make it a part of your dance.

He who has a ‘why’ to live for can bear almost any ‘how’     -Fredrich Nietzsche

If you’re not getting answers, ask better questions

Humor is tickling the human condition. (Michael Lin)

The healthiest meal isn’t always the fullest plate (Michael Lin)

In a cold world, that which has heat naturally attracts (Michael Lin)