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

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

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

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

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

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

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

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

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

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.

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