Get a life in which you are not alone. 

Find people you love, and who love you.

And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.

~Anna Quindlen

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

~George S. Patton

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

~Henry David Thoreau