James Theodos:  

for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop people who don’t want it badly enough.-Randy Pausch. When you're doing a bad job, and nobody points it out to you, that's when they've given up on you-Randy Pausch "What makes a legend? Is it what a man does while he's alive? Or is it what he's remembered for after he dies?" "A righteous person, no matter how blameless, will always take humanity's failures personally."-John McCain (Speaking of Romeo Dallaire) "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." --John Wooden A VETERAN - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.".