"Happiness doesn’t lie in the fulfillment of the expected. Neither in all the trinkets and trophies of the world. It’s in enjoying the immersion of the process, not the final outcome. "

via "Ambition can be poison"

To load the output of a query in sqlplus to a file is

SPOOL output.txt
"Query"
SPOOL OFF

Reposting from the site : http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-20/the-financial-planning-flowchart#r=nav-img