“There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.”

“We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.”

“Children—their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must—that life is the cruel fate that awaits them while they make plans for a tomorrow that will never be.”

“The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.”

“Ah, Sharon Lipschutz," said the young man. "How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.”

“Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.”

“Within the child lies the fate of the future.”