It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it. – Finley Peter Dunne

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. – e.e. cummings, 1955

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch. – Author unknown, from a television commercial

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. – Seneca