Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. – Jane Ellice Hopkins