“You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.”
“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
“Yes. It doesn't matter what happens; no matter where a child goes - how far or how long. Even if it's forever. You never lose them. You can't.”
“But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.”
“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”
“No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.”