Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.
Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!
One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.' You have no idea of the competition.
I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.
Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
Let nothing come between you and the light.
A pink sneaker is like walking down the street at five miles per hour with a Starbucks in your hand. Nobody is getting in your way.
Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
