Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.