Time is a game played beautifully by children.
-Heraclitus
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
-Henry David Thoreau