The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Confucius

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter Drucker