Be prepared?

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

Blake Clark

Unproductive behavior?

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Baz Lurhman

Write on?

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

There was never a child so lovely

... but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Face the new day?

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
 

Mary Schmich

On your way?

If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.

Yiddish Proverb