You Never Know: A Memoir

by Tom Selleck

bricklayer’s mentality about goals. Brick by brick, I would discover the road and learn only later where it might take me.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

I granted myself the right to fail. And the more I granted myself the right to fail, the more I risked. And the more I risked, the more I learned. And the more I learned, the more I was willing to deliver myself to the uncertainty of the future.