By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
I can, therefore I am.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
You never know what motivates you.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Only the educated are free.
Who seeks shall find.
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.