It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.