Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.