“"But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck. When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us. When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be…”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“Some came today, Mrs. Jackson, to say good-bye to Michael. I came to say, thank you. Thank you because you never stopped. Thank you because you never gave up. Thank you because you never gave out. Thank you because you tore down divisions. Thank you because you eradicated barriers. Thank you because…”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com
“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and one in anoth…”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com