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

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

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

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

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

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

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

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

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

Little folks become their little fate.

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

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

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.