“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John Shedd
From 'Salt from My Attic' (1928), p. 20, Mosher Press, Portland, Maine. Verified in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), p. 705.
I was a professor nobody remembers, an author most people have never heard of. I wrote one line on page twenty of a small book, and that line carried further than my name ever did. I spent sixty-nine years watching people choose the dock over the open water. Choosing comfort over purpose. You do not need fame or permission. You need one honest act of courage. Leave the harbor.