How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James
I mean, my dads a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasnt exactly what I wanted to do. – J. J. Abrams
The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life. – Heinrich Heine
