There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine — "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté."

Margaret Atwood

Every man usually has something he can do better than anyone else. Usually it is reading his own handwriting.

J. Norman Collie

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

German proverb

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Lao Tzu

If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.

Yogi Berra

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

Ethiopian Proverb