You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."

"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."