Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The future will be better tomorrow.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

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

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.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

The future is purchased by the present.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

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.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

My future is righteousness.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.