o “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”  Voltaireo “Trust is like the air we breathe. When it’s present, nobody really notices; but when it’s absent, everybody notices.”  Warren Buffett

o “The only way to have a stable state is to have a good army and good friends.”  Niccolo Machiavelli

o “Fight for the things that you care about, but do so in a way that will lead others to join you.”  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

o “Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”  Epictetus

o “The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”  John Pierpont Morgan

o “The constant lesson of history is the dominant role played by surprise. Just when we are most comfortable with an environment and come to believe we finally understand it, the ground shifts under our feet.  Peter Bernstein

o “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”  Abraham Lincoln

o “If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run, — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.”  Arthur  C. Clarke

o “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”  Steven Wright