You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.(Napoleon Bonaparte)