Education

• University of Southern California
• University of Virginia
• NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School)
• Franklin Regional High School

Favorite saying

• ""Every man dies; not every man really lives." -- William Wallace "I am thankful for all of those who have said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself." --Albert Einstein "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein "Faith is stronger than so-called reason." -- Herman Hesse, Journey to the East "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else." -- C.S. Lewis "How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgement upon that which seems." -- Daniel Webster "Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." --C.S. Lewis "I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating." -- Sophocles "On the Plains of Hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the Dawn of Victory laid down to rest and in resting died." -- Adlai E. Stevenson "Somebody came into my office the other day, crying. I said look--don't cry to give up, cry to keep going. Don't cry to quit! You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it." -- Eric Thomas "As soon as you want to succeed as bad as you want to sleep, that's when you'll be successful." -- Eric Thomas "At any moment, be ready to sacrifice what you are for what you will become." -- Eric Thomas "All men are created equal; some work harder in preseason." --Emmitt Smith "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." -- Thomas Jefferson "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." -- Thomas Jefferson "Envialo. You just gotta send it, man. Why you so scared?" -- Jose Luis, expedition instructor "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to always remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson "Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl, One was an optimistic soul; But the other took the gloomy view, “We shall drown,” he cried, without more ado. So with a last despairing cry, He flung up his legs and said, “Good-bye.” Quoth the other frog with a merry grim, “I can’t get out, but I won’t give in. I’ll just swim round till my strength is spent, Then will I die the more content.” Bravely he swam till it would seem His struggles began to churn the cream. On the top of the butter at last he stopped, And out of the bowl he gaily hopped. What of the moral? ‘Tis easily found: If you can’t hop out, keep swimming around." --Walter Knight, Knight’s Master Book of New Illustrations "No man is an island, Entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Any man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." --John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, "Meditation XVII" "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud, Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me, unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul." -- William Ernest Henley, Invictus "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." --Theodore Roosevelt, "A Man in a Republic" speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. April 23, 1910"