To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, Oh, God, whats this? I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait. – Whitney Houston