and i quote:::

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose the ventures before us.
- Shakespeare

a passage that has moved me since highschool. i can still remember hearing it for the first time.
i was speechless.
it continues to have this effect on me.