“There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

“The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.”

“My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right. We try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path.…. But the mountain is there to be crossed. It is on that pilgrimage, as we climb higher, that we are forced to shed the layers upon layers we have carried for so long. Then we find that our load is lighter, and we have come to know something of ourselves in the perilous climb…..Do not seek to avoid the mountain, my child. For it has been placed there at a perfect time. It will only become larger if you seek to delay or draw back from the ascent. ”

“Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions...as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.”

“The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie.”

“Wolfgang von Goethe:"A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.”