The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.
“I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.”
“Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.”