I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.