"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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Source: As quoted in Speeches & Presentations Unzipped by Lori Rozakis, (p. 71), 2007.
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