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.

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

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

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

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.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

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.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

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

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

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.

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.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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

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.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

It is natural to want to have a future.

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.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

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

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

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.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

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.