I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. (Thomas Jefferson)