Apertures & Exposures

“If you’re unsure flip a coin. Once the coin leaves your hand, before you look, notice internally which one you’re rooting for. That’s the one that your inner self has chosen. Trust it.”

“When life gives you lemons, make champagne and leave the whole world wondering how you did it!”

“Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for humans - who have no gills.”

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.

“Rather than quarrel about territory, let the poor, the needy, and oppressed of the earth ... resort to the fertile plains of our western country, to the second land of promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.”

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.