Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.