History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there. Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. What we love we shall grow to resemble. During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. If the very old will remember, the very young will listen. What if what we see isn't the truth, and only color-blind people see what's really there? The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. | 
