Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.
The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces
As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.
When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying