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.

The status quo sucks.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

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.

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

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.

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.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

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.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

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

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

My future is righteousness.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

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.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

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.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.