Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can.
You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.
Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.