What you need to do is take control of things. Don't wait for events to catch up with you; go and meet them head-on! - Terry Brooks

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

If you think that Man is free to build a new life while the rest of the world drifts by, then you do not know anything of history!

We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two.