Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The best way out is always through.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.