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.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

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.

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.

Little folks become their little fate.

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.