It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I might just write a novel next. I don’t know!

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

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.

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

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.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

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

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

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

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

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.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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

The more I see the less I know for sure.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

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

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

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.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

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

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

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.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

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