The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

You have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.

Safety isn't a priority—it's a value. Priorities change; values don't.

Le soleil, le foyer de tendresse et de vie, verse l'amour brûlant à la terre ravie.

Forests teach us patience—growth takes time, but the rewards are everlasting.