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

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

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.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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

Dissents speak to a future age.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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

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.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

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.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

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.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

I don’t try to control my days.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

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

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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

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!

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

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

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

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.