When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.
Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2009) - ISBN: 9781416583608