Always desire to learn something useful.
After a storm comes a calm.
Who seeks shall find.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Wherever you are - be all there.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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.