“Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.” - Epictetus, Enchiridion 8 (trans. Elizabeth Carter).

“When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.” — Dwight Eisenhower

"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be." --Isaac Asimov

"In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so." -Immanuel Kant