Gracie

“Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
― John von Neumann

“The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.”
― Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays