What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

An “unemployed” existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. – José Ortega y Gasset

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. – Sir Winston Churchill

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content. – Ludwig Wittgenstein [see Dostoyevsky]