The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us the past is fixed while the future is open.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it we can explain it but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge not a uniform you can't take off.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Life is hopefully long so I don't know what the future will bring.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.