not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.