Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. – James Russell Lowell

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin