I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

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.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

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.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

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

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

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

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

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

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

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

See things from the boy’s point of view.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

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

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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.