The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor, to sketch out a map of possibilities and then to treat them as probabilities. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. With my freckles and messy hair, bruised knee and chapped lips this morning I am splendidly imperfect and alive!

How soon will you realise that the only thing you do not have is the direct experience that there is nothing you need that you do not have? The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral wellbeing of the place in which he lives is left long without proper reward. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Be yourself everyone else is already taken.

Be yourself everyone else is already taken. We outgrow people, places, and things as we unfold. We may be saddened when old friends say their piece and leave our lives... but let them go. They were at a different stage and looking in a different direction There are always two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.