"In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass."

"…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future."

"We have seen the future, and the future is ours."

"Nothing had really changed....The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

"The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing"

"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"The visions we offer our children shape the future."

"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

"People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?"

"Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future."

"By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface."

"We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way."

"For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math."

"My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon."

"The future is made of the same stuff as the present"

"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."

"against things we haven't seen and that we will see in the near future."

"Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present"

"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."