By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin (Thank you, Kyle.)

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. – Albert Camus, The Rebel, 1951

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death