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.

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

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

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

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

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.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The march of the human mind is slow.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

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.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I always entertain great hopes.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.