When October Goes

And when October goes,
The snow begins to fly.
Above the smokey roofs,
I watch the planes go by.
The children running home
Beneath a twilight sky.
Oh, for the fun of them,
When I was one of them.

And when October goes,
The same old dream appears,
And you are in my arms
To share the happy years.
I turn my head away
To hide the helpless tears.
Oh, how I hate to see October go.

I should be over it now, I know.
It doesn't matter much
How old I grow.
I hate to see October go.

-Johnny Mercer

Wise words from wise men

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. So don't let people talk you into doing the safe thing. Listen to what's inside of you, and decide what it is that you care about so much that you're willing to risk it all."

"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

-Barack Obama

"The world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease."

-Robert F. Kennedy