America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.