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.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

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

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

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

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.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

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

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

I don’t have all the answers.

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

Life is anything but predictable.

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

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.

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

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

The future is purchased by the present.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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.

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

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Dissents speak to a future age.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

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.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

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