I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.