“If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.”
“The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.”
“...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.”
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”
“Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.”