Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery

Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. – George Sheehan