It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. – Ramakrishna