The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.