I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

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

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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

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

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

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.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

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.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

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.

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 way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

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.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

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

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

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.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

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.

The future of American film lies on television.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.