I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

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.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

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.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

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.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

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

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

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.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

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.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

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

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

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

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

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.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

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

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

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