"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." 
-Douglas Adams

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." 
-Laurence J. Peter

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off." 
-Henry David Thoreau

"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." 
-Walter Kerr 

"Image creates desire. You will what you imagine." 
-J. G. Gallimore

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell