Bruce Springsteen on success

You ride in a limousine the first time, it’s a big thrill but after that it’s just a stupid car.

There ain’t a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.