I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret.

Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

if one is unfamiliar with the infinite power of the subconscious mind, then one is absolutely far from living up to one's true potential in life.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Remember that. -Albus Dumbledore

Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them.

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

I want to be as self-reliant as possible and do it all from within.

Can a wolfe be beautiful?

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.