Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
— Norman R. Augustine
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
— Thomas Merton
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out ofstumbling blocks.