“It is too easy and simplistic to feel that, if you have not succeeded yet, you will not succeed in the future. Overcoming fatalistic thinking is essential if you really want a great future.”

“You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.”

“I quickly realized that you had to have a good idea of the future if you were going to succeed as an inventor.”

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“Invest for the future and do not lose focus. In life you should know what you want then it will not be easy for someone to shift your focus.”

“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.”

“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.”

“Perhaps you don’t desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

“As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.”

“Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.”