Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

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

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.