“Life is short, so let’s make sure we don’t end up feeling like we got short shrift. One day we will make a final judgment about our uprightness in the roaring horizon – how bravely we looked life in the eye when deep furrows were plowed into our faces, how our nightmares could not impoverish our dreams, how we did not let our brightest goals be torn from our hands. When we commit to something, we go beyond our givens. When we dream with intention, everything unintentional that life brings us is easier to accept and overcome, and when we are committed to our goals, we don’t give up easily.”