There is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

(D.H.Lawrence)

I am the maker of my own fortune.

(Tecumseh)

If you look up, there are no limits.

Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

(Isaac Asimov)

To have begun is to have done half the task.

(Horace)

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. (John F. Kennedy)

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

(Marcus Aurelius)