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.

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

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

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

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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.

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

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

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

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

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.

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

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