There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. – W. Somerset Maugham

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin

[A] morning-land full of immeasurable hopes encircled him; he stripped his breast, threw himself all aglow into the dripping grass, washed (but not with any higher purpose than girls have) his firm face with liquid June-snow… – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,