It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. – Rainer Maria Rilke

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. – W. Somerset Maugham

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