While knowledge may provide useful point of reference it cannot become a force to guide the future.

On Australia Day 2010 as we enter this second decade of the 21st century Australians can be optimistic about our future but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

While we can remember the past we cannot write the future. Only our children the future of our community can do that.

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.

In the future instead of striving to be right at a high cost it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

For all of its uncertainty we cannot flee the future.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics that action and reaction are equal and opposite that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

I cannot sing dance or act what else would I be but a talk show host.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him and to speak painful truth through loving words that is friendship.

What I cannot love I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Friendship with ones self is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it friends make life a lot more fun.