As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. – George Bernard Shaw

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man