‘I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.’ — Benjamin Disraeli

‘I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.’ — Joan Rivers

‘If you count all your assets you always show a profit.’ — Wilson Mizner

‘All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.’ — Alexandre Dumas

‘Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.’ — Laurence Sterne

‘This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.’ — Hannah Arendt

‘Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.’ — Anne Frank

‘You will never win if you never begin.’ — Helen Rowland

‘I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.’ — Albert Einstein

‘Hope is but the dream of those who wake.’ — Matthew Prior

‘With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.’ — Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.’ — Vernon Howard