William Congreve on risk

Heav’n hath no rage like love to hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.

Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost1874–1963The Road Not Taken (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), The Road Not Taken, st. 4In context

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein1879–1955