Our lives teach us who we are.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.