"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward." --Amelia Earhart
"The appliances are in their place, useful animals whose merits must be remembered, though without devoting special worship to them."
--Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler