Matt Barker

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Your efforts today will affect people you will never know. It is your choice whether that effect is positive or negative. You can choose every day, every minute, to act in a way that may uplift a stranger, or else drag them down. The choice is easy. And it is yours to make.”
― Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“They are in great pain, and can scarce see to walk." Yet they were compelled onward by that mysterious narcotic: hope. - The Wager

"Just as people tailor their stories to serve their interests-revising, erasing, embroidering-so do nations." - David Grann, The Wager”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder