All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. (Ambrose Bierce)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. (Vince Lombardi)