If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.