We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
“God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.”
“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.”