As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
Whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.