History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

Beethoven: The Universal Composer.

He would nurse a beer through an evening of Irish revelry, affable and jovial, and carry his paralytically drunk companions home to bed without any disturbance to his life-long calm.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

I guess I felt I was lucky because history just happened to hand me all these empty niches, and it did fuel me. It is always exciting when you tap into some new subject matter.