Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to and the last duty done.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

What does the future that half of time matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

When you relinquish the desire to control your future you can have more happiness.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

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

I've noticed a terrible thing which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

Something I've realized lately to my shock is that I am an optimist in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

Knowledge about the economy ideas about capitalism and government the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

The past is not dead it is living in us and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Fascism the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.