So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. – Attributed to Richard M. Nixon

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. – Michel de Montaigne, translated