Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.

You can not have empty or neutral mind as long as you work the mind will contain dreams if you stop working it will contain regrets.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.