“He checked the barometer he'd nailed to the family room wall: the pressure was rising.”
“Opportunity seldom rises with blood pressure.”
“...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.”
“Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
“and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.”
“Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something.Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.”