A story is a way of making sense of the past.

在不幸中所表现出来的勇气，通常总是使卑怯的心灵恼怒，而使高尚的心灵喜悦的。

If you’re not willing to take risks, you’re not going to achieve anything extraordinary.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.