Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.
The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom
The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.