He opens our eyes on new horizons and unveils a mysterious, unknown world to us. (p65)

She did what no one had thought possible.

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.

At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.

Everyone had grown to believe that only NASA and professional astronauts could travel into space. What Burt and his team did was demonstrate that all of us will have the chance to make that trip in the near future. He changed the paradigm.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Were the heavens ever opened and a glimpse of the world beyond vouchsafed to men's wondering eyes?

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before — and thus was the Empire forged.

The world owes its progress to the men who have dared,

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imagination.

People who changed the world have declared independence from other people's expectations.

He has conquered the air so completely, that the birds are a poor match for him in flying. He has harnessed the ether, and made it serve as a means of instantaneous communication with any part of the world.