What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
It's always too early to quit.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.