If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Give yourself something to work toward — constantly. – Mary Kay Ash

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man