Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. – J. K. Rowling
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldnt possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world. – Bob Dylan
