“Sometimes the fear of failure steals the beauty we were meant to create.”

“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”

“Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes the beauty is so deep it pierces us with longing. For what? For life as it was meant to be. Beauty reminds us of an Eden we have never known, but somehow our hearts were created for.”

“As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.”

“Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, ‘failure’ meant an entrepreneurial failure.”

“We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.”