It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.