I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Something I have realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we are smart about it.

I have noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it is far enough in the future.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

I am convinced there is a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you are never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It is in the spirit of it.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.