There has to be more to life than imagining a future for yourself. I can't just wish for the future; I have to take risks to create it.

Never begrudge the seed you sow in good soil, for it is the harvest that comes from that sowing that will determine whether you live or die next sprin...

I don’t want to fear the mess that I’ve made of the past, nor fear the mess that I feel I’ll make of the future. What I want to do is to realize that ...

It would be a little late in deciding now that we would not live our lives by the whimsical wisdoms of futuretellers, don't you think?

I teach that life should never be modified, or squelched, because of the promise of some other kind of life in the future. What is immortal is this li...

Humanity must focus on the future. The past has dug enough graves, and built enough madhouses for true believers. You don’t need to be defined by the ...

Focusing on the past is history;
Focusing on the present is experience;
Focusing on the future is hope.

Collectively and individually, we have more control now over how our future unfolds than ever before. But our ability to envision and engineer the fut...

It’s hard to look back at the past and feel some regret, but it’s really exciting to look to the future and see a window of hope.

The partner of past is future.
The now has no opposite.
In the now, future and past are one.

If there’s got to be a future for humanity, there’ll have to be a very big change from what now is.

Hatred and judgement does not build bridges to a pleasant future, it burns them. Cooperation and diplomacy are what builds them.

Life happens. This leads you to ask, “What did I do to deserve this?” You may be asking the wrong question. The eternal question is this: Can I change...

You can have your past, or you can have your future. Not both.

When we keep thinking about the past, we get depressed. When we keep focused on the future, we get anxious. When we think about the present, we feel p...

The paralysis of being unable to make a decision can be warded off by employing a simple process over and over again. It becomes easier, almost instin...