Haste in every business brings failures.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.