After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

In the future instead of striving to be right at a high cost it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

School is practice for the future and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect so why practice?

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

We know that when people are safe in their homes they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment the more devastating future disappointments will be.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Up against the corporate government voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

There is still a future with music because people want music.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself against any threat.

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood the esprit de corps the focus - there being no past or future just the ball. As trite as it sounds I was happiest playing ball.