Bruce

“It is the nature of things that every time you try to avoid one danger you run into another.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

“Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.”
― Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations