-- If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. -- If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. -- Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. -- Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. -- Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you. -- It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong.