Alright, I'll try to share one of my favorite quotes. Frank Oppenheimer was a respected physicist and the founder of the Exploratorium, the renowned science museum in San Francisco. (I think Frank was also the brother of another famous physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the Manhattan Project.) In any case, if I remember correctly, Frank Oppenheimer was delivering a commencement address to a high school graduating class he had taught -- the McCarthy hearings had relegated Frank from physics researcher to high school teacher -- and he concluded with ...


"I recommend that you be willing to become deeply involved in lots and lots of things, and that you let yourself, perhaps even force yourself, to do the things that you think are important and that you can take seriously. I make this recommendation because I believe that if you do, then even in the face of considerable adversity, you will feel, as I do now, grateful for having lived."