What course of action do you favor?
Me? Why, none. Mary, if there is any one thing I have learned in the past couple of centuries, it's this: These things pass. Wars and depressions and Prophets and Covenants—they pass. The trick is to stay alive through them.
Methuselah's Children Part 1, Chapter 1 (p. 539). - The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)