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

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924

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

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. – Buddha