“With every shovelful, it's like we're traveling back in time. Where no one has gone for centuries...or maybe never gone before.”

“To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.”

“Gone, gone again is Summer the lovely. She that knew not where to hide,Is gone again like a jeweled fish from the hand, Is lost on every side.Mute,mute, I make way to the garden, Thither where she last was seen;The heavy foot of the frost is on the flags there, Where her light step has been. Gone, gone again is Summer the lovely,Gone again on every side,Lost again like a shining fish from the hand Into the shadowy tide.”

“The simple truth - every day is precious. When it's gone, it never comes back to you.”

“Is the groom going to go where no man has gone before?”

“There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.”