A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St