Devin Spalding

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.”
― Jon Meacham, His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
― George Washington

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I hate polemical politics and polemical divinity,” said John Adams. “My religion is founded on the love of God and my neighbor; on the hope of pardon for my offenses; upon contrition; upon the duty as well as the necessity of [enduring] with patience the inevitable evils of life; in the duty of doing no wrong, but all the good I can, to the creation of which I am but an infinitesimal part.” There”
― Jon Meacham, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation