“Opportunity is knocking—

Are you going to keep ignoring it—

Or are you going to take action. . .”

—Chandler Bolt

“It helps to focus on the higher motivations

of what we do (our gifts)—

and pursue excellence

through our work and play. . .

Rather than focus on the outcomes. . .

—Jane Friedman

“I count myself in nothing else so happy—

As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends. . .”

—William Shakespeare (Bolingbroke in “King Richard the Second”)

“An elegant sufficiency, content, retirement, rural quiet—

Friendship, books, ease and alternate labour—

Useful life, progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. . .”

—James Thomson