I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. – William Butler Yeats

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. – Buddha