“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”

“No matter where it is in the sky… No matter where you are in the world… the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John”

“We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.”

“You are in an area where knowledge fails. Where you have to advance in ignorance, not even knowing where you are going.”

“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.”

“It doesn't matter what you did or where you were, it matters where you are and what you're doing.”

“What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I’ll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.”

“The garden where you sit
Has never a need of flowers,
For you are the blossoms
And only a fool or the blind
Would fail to know it”

“I don't mind London being so attractive to the French, but what I don't want is for there to be a widening gap between the two where London is attractive and Paris less so. I want it to be self-evident that Paris is the place to be. If you leave for a professional opportunity, that is understandable, but to leave because you have the impression you can't succeed where you are, can't live in your life, that's a different matter.”

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.”