"I won't say that you can have everything you want--that means having nothing, in reality. But if you decide what it is you want most, you can get it...Not everybody can, but you can. Only, if you want a big thing, you've got to have nerve enough to cut out all that's easy, everything that's to be had cheap . . .
"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To win . . . or lose it all."
-The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather
