Ben Soyka

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
― T.S. Eliot

“They had been attacked by guys in golf carts with blow guns, jumped off a cliff, been locked in a burning school, and had their heads stapled, but putting coins in a slot machine was considered too dangerous for kids. Go figure.”
― Dan Gutman, Mission Unstoppable

“In 1846, George Donner and his brother Jacob, Illinois farmers, set out for the promise of California in covered wagons with several families, including their own. They took a shortcut that turned out to be a longer route, hit bad weather, ran out of food, and resorted to cannibalism (yes, that means eating each other). Only a few members of the party survived.”
― Dan Gutman, Mission Unstoppable