The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practising politicians.
The best biographies are those that make the reader feel they have met the subject in person.
Your 20s are the most defining decade of your life.
"The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity."