Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Leonardo da Vinci - Notebooks Obstacles cannot crush me.
Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. Robert F. Kennedy Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.