Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.