"If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms"
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"