"Be not afraid of life. believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I do not have a single bit of talent left and I could say, I used everything you gave me." - Erma Bombeck
Job 41, definitely one of my favourite... "Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? Will it keep begging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentle words? Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life? Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house? Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again. Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering. No one is fierce enough to rouse it. Who then is able to stand against me? Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me."
"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The thing you do obsessively between the age 13 and 18, that's the thing you have the most chance of being world class at." - William H. Gates ( Microsoft founder, Charlie Rose interview 02/22/2016, b. 1955 )
%% Good one. I just learned[2018] Thomas Jefferson delivered the first state of the union[ of its kind] in a letter. That is an introvert-thinker for you LOL +true.