Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. - Og Mandino

So many of us think ourselves into smallness, into inferiority, by thinking downward. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough.... Struck down by our own caution, our own lack of faith in ourselves and our abilities. Opportunities? There were many. But always there was risk. Do we dare? We vacillate. Time hurries by. Opportunity gone. We anguish. The years roll on. Finally, we convince ourselves that it's too late and settle for cheap imitations of life.

victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.