Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
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.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.