“Youth is not an endless reserve to spend recklessly, but a fragile spring — use its waters with wonder, care, and purpose, or you'll drink only memories of what might have been.”

Speech to the UN Economic and Social Council, Geneva, Switzerland (9 July 1965)
Context: We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave — to the ancient enemies of man — half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all.

Original: Prestiamo troppa attenzione agli eventi negativi che ci accadono. È essenziale pensare positivamente, soprattutto nei momenti di fragilità, la vita può riservarci all'improvviso qualcosa di sorprendentemente meraviglioso.
Source: prevale.net

Source: Lover Awakened

Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 12
Context: All things in the world are created for man, yet all have two purposes. The waters run that we might drink of them, but they are also symbols of the futility of man. They reflect our lives in rushing beauty, birthed in the purity of the mountains. As babes they babble and run, gushing and growing as they mature into strong young rivers. Then they widen and slow until at least they meander, like old men, to join with the sea.

Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 2, Random Resources, p. 23

The Bonehunters (2006)

Source: Days Without End: A Novel

Source: Boneshaker (2009), p. 32