First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy. There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.