Don't just observe life, experience it.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt "Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Funny VW commercials

I love the new VW commercials, with the German engineers destroying "pimped out" cars (those ones that are inspired by the oh-so-lovely Fast and Furious movie). Too bad I don't like VW.

(Hmm...doesn't look like the commercials have made it to the website yet. Oh, well.)