I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.Karl Lagerfeld
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.Michel de Montaigne
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.Arthur Schopenhauer
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.Ovid
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.Lucius Annaeus Seneca