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 don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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

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

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

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

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

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

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

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.