I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

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.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

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!

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

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.

The future is purchased by the present.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

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

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

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

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

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

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

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

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

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.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

I’m not a fortune-teller.