Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.