He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. – Proverb
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St