I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller., Isak Dinesen, (Karen Blixen),
Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for., Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004,
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy., Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus (1922), Austrian philosopher (1889 1951)
To fail to plan is to plan to fail., Robert Wubbolding,
[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst., Voltaire, Candide, French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 1778)
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?, William Hart Coleridge,