Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.