It's a troubling paradox - I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself.

Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.

You MUST do what you love. Sometimes your passion will be the only thing that keeps you motivated.

You don't have to have a million followers to make an impact on one.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.