Here are three excellent quotes I came across:

"Life is so meaningless we might as well try to make ourselves extraordinary." â??Francis Bacon

"The trick is to assume your life is going to work out. Of course, it never does, so you do the next best thing: you take it one disaster at a time." â??Fisher Stevens, in Early Edition

"If you donâ??t control your mind, someone else will." â??John Allston