‘There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.’
Beverly Sills

‘You only ever grow as a human being if you’re outside your comfort zone.’
Percy Cerutty

‘Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.’
Mark Twain

‘It is only through work and strife that either nation or individual moves on to greatness. The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort.’
Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech about Grant, delivered at Galena, Illinois, April 27, 1900

‘Men aren’t the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they’ve been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.’
Barbara de Angelis

‘One of the biggest surprises when I got into flight training was seeing all these people that wanted to be pilots. ‘
Alan Bean

‘Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.’
Liane Cardes