I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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.

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

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

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

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

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

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

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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