What is your favorite quote?

What’s Your Favorite Quote?
Someone asked me this the other day, almost in passing, the way you’d ask what someone’s favorite color is. But I found myself pausing longer than the question deserved. Not because I didn’t have an answer, but because I had too many — and I had to decide which one was actually true for me, and which one just sounded good.
Here’s the quote I kept coming back to: “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” I can’t remember exactly where I first heard it, but I remember exactly where I was standing when it settled into me — somewhere between a decision I was scared to make and a plan I hadn’t finished writing yet.
I think that’s the thing about favorite quotes. They rarely find you when life is calm. They find you in the in-between moments — when you’ve started something but haven’t finished it, when you believe in a thing but can’t yet prove it was the right call. For me, that line has shown up in lecture halls when the syllabus felt endless, in early conversations about King David Properties Limited when it was still an idea sketched on paper, and in quiet nights when the Foundation’s mission felt bigger than my current capacity to carry it.
A good quote doesn’t hand you an answer. It hands you permission — permission to move without full clarity, to build without a finished blueprint, to trust that the next step will reveal itself once you’ve taken the one in front of you.
I’ve noticed something else too: the quotes that stay with us usually aren’t the flashiest ones. They’re not always the most quoted, most shared, most printed-on-a-mug lines. They’re the ones that arrived at the right moment and matched something we were already trying to believe about ourselves.
So — what’s your favorite quote? Not the one you’d post for likes, but the one you actually return to, quietly, when no one’s watching. I’d love to know. Sometimes the words that hold another person up are exactly the ones we need to borrow for ourselves.
Until the whole staircase comes into view, one step is still enough.