. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?โ I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? โThere is time,โ she said, โbut the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.
Louis L'AmourYou stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.
Louis L'AmourToo often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L'AmourSome say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
Louis L'Amour