“We don't receive wisdom;    we must discover it for ourselves after a    journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
                                          -Marcel Proust

  "Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked    roads without improvement are the roads of genius."
                                          -William Blake

  "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in    the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
                                          -Lord Alfred Tennyson