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about the future . . . 

“Certainty is generally illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.” 

                          Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

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about planning . . . 

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

                          Plato (circa 428–348 B.C.)

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about risk . . . 

“All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgments of probabilities and not on certainties.”

                         Charles W. Elliot (1834–1926) 

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about contribution . . . 

“Our vitality is not restored by ease but by effort.”

                   Philip Caputo, (1941–      )

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about conviction . . .         

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,

and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, 

he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will pass an invisible boundary;

new, universal, and more liberal laws

will begin to establish themselves around and within him;

and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”

                  Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)