“I’ll define my success and create a definite path towards my envisaged future while using other successful people’s stories or experience as reference points (and not exact blueprints).”

“Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!”

“For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”

“The future is always brighter than the past.”

“Only with an imagination can you see the magnificent beauty of the distant future and eternity.”

“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

“All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.”

“Your dreamers. You ridiculous children. You dancing grinning fuckups. Here is your bright future. Your earnest, saccharine hope. How does it taste dripping from the neck of everyone you love?”

“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”

“It’s not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It’s about what I DO for our future and humanity.”

“Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.”

“My best day ever. Got up. Had breakfast. Came to school. Bored, as usual. Wishing I wasn’t there, like usual. Kids ignoring me, suits me fine. Sitting with the other retards—we’re so special. Wasting my time. Yesterday was the same, and it’s gone, anyway. Tomorrow may never come. There is only today. This is the best day and the worst day. Actually it’s crap.”

“We cherish all the past, we glide a-down the present, awake yet dreaming; but the future of ours together—there the bird sings loudest, and the sun shines always there…”

“It’s a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this.”I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself.”Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.””The board-schools.””Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.”

“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”