The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.