"Once, a poet said that no man is an island.  In order to fight the good fight, we need help.  We need friends, and when the friends aren't nearby, we have to turn solitude into our main weapon.  We need the help of everything around us in order to take the necessary steps toward our goal.  Everything has to be a personal manifestation of our will to win the good fight.  If we don't understand that, then we don't recognize that we need everything and everybody, and we become arrogant warriors.  And our arrogance will defeat us in the end, because we will be so sure of ourselves that we won't see the pitfalls there on the field of battle."

   - Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage