Si monumentum requiris circumspice

(If you seek his monument, look around.)

[Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral]

A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward— that a way, however narrow and difficult, would in time open— predominated over other feelings: its influence hushed them so far, that at last I became sufficiently tranquil to be able to say my prayers and seek my couch. I had just extinguished my candle and lain down, when a deep, low, mighty tone swung through the night. At first I knew it not; but it was uttered twelve times, and at the twelfth colossal hum and trembling knell, I said: “I lie in the shadow of St. Paul’s.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

Any time you can get some momentum going for yourselves, it is a confidence builder. You want to keep it up as much as you can for as long as you can. This was another test for us. We feel like we are doing the things it takes to win games right now.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.