Talent, Goals, Needs

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
~ Brendan Francis

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Displayed in the Lobby of the Shreveport, LA Veterans Hospital:
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve.
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health, that I might do great things.
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy.
I was given poverty, that I might become wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men.
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need for God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life.
I was given Life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for, but everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers and true needs were fulfilled.
I am, among all men, most richly blessed.
~ Unknown Civil War Veteran

Dignity of Life, Determination, Beautiful Solutions

What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.
~ Kofi Annan (1938-) Ghanaian diplomat - seventh secretary-general of
the United Nations (1997-2006); awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2001

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse.
~ Anonymous

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Forward progress?

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

~ Buckminster Fuller

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

~ George Burns