When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.