“Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.”

“Will we lift our sights to meet his vision?”

“The most important component of the incompatibility between science and religion is religion’s dependence on faith.”

“Spread sail! For it is Hope today that like a wind new-risen
Doth waft us on a golden wing towards a new horizon,
That is the sun before our sight, the beacon for us burning,
That is the star in all our night of watching and of yearning.”

“A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.”

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.”

“But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.”

“The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on towards where one is heading.”

“People who were wounded by being incompatible with their family and therefore being pushed away, shamed and rejected for who they are, are desperate to belong. They are so desperate for connection that they commit to people who are incompatible to them even after they become aware of the incompatibility. It is a bit like being so desperate for water that you'll drink it even if you know it is poisoned.”