Ruin and recovery are both from within. – Epictetus

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. – Bernard M. Baruch

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. – Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881