Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. – T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. – Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies (screenplay)

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com