Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.

--John Updike

("Gratia Dei sum quid sum" = "By the grace of God, I am what I am" - translation courtesy of Matthew Hoskin.)