Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.