It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
You always pass failure on the way to success.