When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

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

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

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

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

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

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

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

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

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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.

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

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

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.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

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

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

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

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.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.