The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

People dont choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. – John Dos Passos

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley