Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.