Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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

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

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

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

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

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

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

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.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

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.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

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.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

The future is purchased by the present.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

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

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.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

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.

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.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

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.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.