Education

• UC Blue Ash
• Northridge High School (Layton, Utah)

Favorite saying

• "“It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.”-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one"-Marcus Aurelius “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods..."-Horatius, stanza XXVII in Lays of Ancient Rome "I call myself a Republican 'cause I am one. I believe in market solutions and I believe in common sense realities and the necessity to defend ourselves against a dangerous world and that's about it. Problem is now I have to be homophobic. I have to count the number of times people go to church. I have to deny facts and think scientific research is a long con. I have to think poor people are getting a sweet ride. And I have to have such a stunning inferiority complex that I fear education and intellect in the 21st century. But most of all, the biggest new requirement, really the only requirement, is that I have to hate Democrats. And I have to hate Chris Christie for not spitting on the president when he got off Air Force One. The two-party system is crucial to the whole operation. There's honor in being the loyal opposition. And I'm a Republican for the same reasons you are."-Will Macavoy "If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart, then in living - I have made my mark."-Thomas L. Odem Jr. "I would rather be a good man, than a great king."-Thor "Be who you and say what you feel because those that mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind."-Anonymous "Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame."-War Doctor As a reminder to myself, The Doctor has been played by: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, John Hurt,Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, and Peter Capaldi "That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."-Henry David Thoreau "Is it not worthy of tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"-Alexander the Great "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."-Nietzsche "It doesn't matter if your a king or a street sweeper, someday you're gonna have'ta dance with the reaper."-Death, Bill and Ted's Bogus journey "Life is pain, anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something."-Wesley, Princess Bride "The Future is to be lived, not prearranged."-Luke Skywalker, Betrayal "There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path."- Morpheus, The Matrix "As we all know, madness is like gravity. All you need is a little, push."-The Joker, The Dark Knight "It's not who I am on the inside, but what I do that defines me."-Batman, Batman Begins "Comprehension is not a requisite of cooperation"-Councilor West, Matrix Revolutions "From the unreal lead me to the real From the darkness lead me to the light From death lead me to immortality."-Neodammerung, song from Matrix Revolutions "They may take our homes; they may take our lives; but they will never take our freedom!"-William Wallace, Braveheart "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me."-Psalms 23:4 "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society."-Jiddu Krishnamurti "A people that values its privileges over its principles soon looses both."-Dwight D. Eisenhower "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."-a friend "I ams what I ams and that's all that I ams."-Popeye the sailer man "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."-Unknown "There is no monopoly of common sense on either side of the political fence."-Sting, Russians "We share the same biology, regardless of our geology."-Sting, Russians "A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy."-George Jean Nathan "You will never find true happiness, what'cha gonna cry about?"-Weird Al "Ladies and Gentlemen, Hobos and Tramps, Cross-eyed mosquitoes and bowlegged ants. I come before you, to stand behind you, to tell you a story I know nothing about. One bright morning in the middle of the night two dead fellows stood up to fight. They stood back to back, facing each other, drew their swords and shot each other. If you don't believe my lie, it's true, ask the blind lady on the corner, she saw it too."-The Joker "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return."-Moulin Rouge "You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose."-Jo Courdert "I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries."-Theodore Isaac Rubin "I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone."-Delta Burke "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go."-Dr. Seuss "Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can still stand."-Anonymous "The future is a riddle only time can solve."-The Riddler "...Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."-Joshua 1:9 "Life's full of questions, isn't it? Though, naturally, I prefer to think of them as riddles."-The Riddler "Life doesn't get better by chance, it gets better by change."-Anonymous "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."-Arthur Ashe "Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley "Here's the thing Milo, if [the music] is too loud, you're too old."-Ian, Airheads "I don't expect to make it, all I ask, is that I'm given the opportunity to try."-Me "it takes less than death to kill a man."-Stormin' Norman, School of Life "1 man out of 1,000 is a leader of men, the other 999 follow me"-Anonymous "I think 'love' is too big of a word to only have four letters."-Travis, WhatTravisSays "Demons run when a Good Man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun When a Good Man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a Good Man goes to war."-River Song, Doctor Who "As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves."-The Doctor "Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never know the time again."-The Doctor " I don't know, rocket fire at long range - somehow it lacks that personal touch."-The Master "Oh, marvellous. You're going to kill me. What a finely-tuned response to the situation."-The Doctor "Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead."-The Doctor "To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained."-The Doctor "If you look at history, the great men and women of the world have always been defined by their enemies."-Lex Luthor, Smallville "Life's a journey, Clark; I don't wanna go through it following a road map."-Lex Luthor, Smallville "You see, I don't want to do good things, I want to do great things."-Lex Luthor, Smallville "I don't care about the past -- I believe in the power to reinvent yourself."-Lex Luthor, Smallville "In my experience I've found you can never have too much information."-Lex Luthor, Smallville "It's not about the ending, it's about the journey."-Lex Luthor, Smallville "That, my friend, is the key to leadership. Not only knowing you're right, but convincing everyone else. If you can do that, the world's your oyster."-Lex Luthor, Smallville "There's nothing wrong with a good fight. Just remember, the man of tomorrow is forged by his battles today."-Lex Luthor, Smallville "A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them. They're who they've been throughout your whole relationship."-Rike "An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards."-John Locke "As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."-Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part II “One murder makes a villain, millions a hero”-Beilby Porteus "The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice "I am not a man of words. But I respect the power of words, for that is what transformed me."-Darth Bane, Dark lord of the Sith "Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken..."-Darth Bane, Dark lord of the Sith "When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door."-Kreia, KOTOR2 "We all have our heroes. And when we watch them fall we die inside."-Atris, KOTOR2 "There is no shame in falling, There is only shame if you refuse to rise once again."-Pernicar, Darth Bane: Path of Destruction "Better a few faithful supporters than a wealth of false friends."-Adi Gallia, Cloak of Deception "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."-Yoda, Star Wars Episode 1 "Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."-Martin Luther King Jr. "One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."-Morris West "Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night."-Sarah Williams "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."-Martin Luther King Jr. "The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness."-Victor Hugo "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."-Chinese proverb "I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."-Og Mandino “There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.”-Robert Alden “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”-C.S. Lewis “When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly.”-Patrick Overton "What frightens you? Is it a monster underneath your bed? Or is it the images you come up with in your head? Is it a werewolf waiting for you in the dark? A dangerous creature with a bigger bite than bark? Or maybe it's something bigger, something deeper, something darker. Maybe it's the thought of you, who you could be with out restrictions.To be the monster in your nightmares and the hero in your dream."-Alex, Inner Demons "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."-Carl Jung "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."-Helen Keller "God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."-Abraham Joshua Heschel "He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome."-Ali ibn Abi Talib "I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology."-Brendan Fraser "the real test of a hero is knowing when the greater good will be served by an evil act."-Lionel Luthor, Smallville “Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.”-Mahatma Gandhi “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”-Oscar Wilde "When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love."-Martin Luther King Jr. "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."-Albert Einstein "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."-Martin Luther King Jr. "Evil is a point of view."-Anne Rice "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."-Albert Camus "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."-Friedrich Nietzsche "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."-Ayn Rand "I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."-Alexander the Great "Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."-Alexander the Great "There is nothing impossible to him who will try."-Alexander the Great “I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion”-Alexander the Great “In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.”-Alexander the Great "I will not steal a victory. The end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue."-Alexander the Great "Always take the high ground."-Alexander the Great "Life is not a spectator's sport."-Laverne, The Hunchback of Notre Dame "Knowledge precedes victory, ignorance precedes defeat."-Lex Luthor paraphrasing Sun Tzu, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman “You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived. You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all she's left. Your heart can be empty because you can't see her, or you can be full of the love you shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember her only that she is gone, or you can cherish her memory and let it live on. You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Or you can do what she'd want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.”-David Harkins “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”-Chuck Palahniuk "Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality."-Clifton Paul Fadiman "If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself … and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards… If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles."-Kreia, KOTOR2 "You'd be surprised what you can live through." Jafar/Genie/Iago, Aladdin 2: Return of Jafar "You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel."-??? "Power concedes nothing without demand, it never did and never will."-Fredrick Douglass "The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it."-Dawn, Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing."-Eve Ensler "You see someone running incredibly fast, the first thing you gotta ask is, are they running to something or are they running from something. The answer is always both...Achievement is balanced by fault, by a lack. Can't have one without the other. Everyone who excels is overcompensating. Running from something. Hiding from something."-Topher Brink, Dollhouse "Someday someone will walk into your life and make you realize why everyone else has walked out."-Libby Leonard "For how should man die better, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his father and the temples of his gods?"-Mr. Jefferson, Doctor Who "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse steals trash; 'Tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed."-William Shakespeare "You cannot pass. I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the Shadow. YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!!"-Gandalf the Grey, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring “Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”-Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth “Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”-Upton Sinclair “All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.”-Upton Sinclair "Ask cleverly, live incredibly!"-The Riddler "One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."- Luciano Pavarotti "A genius is someone who can get from A to D without going through B & C."-Anonymous "And, with even a little thought, the differences become obvious; they are intrinsic to the characters. If the Joker bothers to manipulate you, it's subtly, using ridicule and challenging your worldview. The Riddler delights in openly manipulating the hero, through forcing him to jump through hoops. The Joker is that annoying game opponent who psychs you out; the Riddler is the dungeon-master who delights in being fair- but only technically so. The Joker flaunts rules; The Riddler revels in using them to his advantage. The Joker is happy to tell you what his next crime is and dares you to stop him; the Riddler challenges you to figure it out. The Joker is an adaptive, philosophical challenge; the Riddler is a creative, intellectual challenge. As an opponent, the Joker's advantage is that you never know what he'll do next and neither does he; the Riddler's advantage is that he always knows what he'll do next and what you will, too. C'mon, people; is it really that hard for an average person to grasp the difference between a psychotic, chaotic, killer clown and an intellectual bully and control-freak?"-Anonymous, I completely agree "I disagree when someone says they're either a lover or a fighter, because I'm both. I fight for my love and I love the fight."-Anonymous “The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”-William James "we don't stumble over mountains but rather pebbles and stones."-Jim Booher "You're focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem!"-Arthur Mendelson, Patch Adams "What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference."-Hunter Patch Adams, Patch Adams "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."-Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going. There's no knowing where we're rowing, or which way the river's flowing. Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a blowing? Not a speck of light is showing, so the danger must be growing. Are the fires of hell a glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes! The danger must be growing, for the rowers keep on rowing. And they're certainly not showing any signs that they are slowing!"-Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life."-Winston Churchill "The real test of a hero is knowing when the greater good will be served by an evil act."-Lionel Luthor, Smallville. "The right man can do anything."-Lionel Luthor, Smallville "There's no such thing as an ordinary human."-The Doctor, Doctor Who "More often then not, when choosing a path, it's the easy path that's taken. The reasons are obvious, understandable... But ultimately undefendable. Because we were created to create ourselves... It's the greatest gift our creator gave us. The problem though, is that for many, a gift falls short of what they believe they deserve. Born to greatness was a lie. And fate was invented by cowards. But destiny, is something we hold in our hands."-Lex Luthor "When a man lies, he murders some part of the world."-Paul Gerhardt "Nothing terrifies me, because there is nothing I don't have the power to change."-David Xanatos, Gargoyles "Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees; The further sky, the greater length; The more the storm, the more the strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snow, In trees and men good timbers grow."-Douglas Malloch "Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith."-Dieter F. Uchtdorf "In the sight of the Lord it is not so much what we have done or where we have been, but where we are willing to go."-Elder Edward Dube "Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral."-Dallin H. Oaks "Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny."-Russell M. Nelson "Our destiny is determined by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward."-Dieter F. Uchtdorf "Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congress?"-Neal A. Maxwell "Happiness is an inside job. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life."-Mandy Hale "The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it.... But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."-C.S. Lewis "One ship drives east and another drives west With the self-same winds that blow; ' T'is the set of the sails And not the gales That tells them the way to go. Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life; T'is the set of the soul That decides the goal And not the calm or the strife"-Ella Wheeler Wilcox "You will one day stand aside and look at your difficult times, and you will realize that He was always there beside you."-Thomas S. Monson "There is no question whether an event has happened because of your prayer. When the event you prayed for occurs your prayer has always contributed to it. When the opposite event occurs your prayer has never been ignored; it has been considered and refused, for your ultimate good and the good of the whole universe."-C.S. Lewis "Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone."-Marty Rubin "We all change, when you think about it. We’re all different people throughout our lives. And that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me."-Matt Smith"