"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."
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Source: Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800-1950). Book edited by Karen Hunger Parshall and Jeremy J. Gray, September 6, 2007.
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