Oscar Wilde: "Every saint has a..."

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

—Oscar Wilde

C.S. Lewis: "There are far, far..."

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we left behind."

—C.S. Lewis

Gandhi: "The future depends on..."

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

—Mahatma Gandhi

Barbara Kingsolver: "From a biological perspective..."

"From a biological perspective, the ultimate act of failure is to raise helpless kids."

—Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Barbara Kingsolver: "Where my kids are concerned..."

"Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them."

—Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Saul D. Alinsky: "From time to time..."

"From time to time there have been external enemies at our gates; there has always been the enemy within, the hidden and malignant inertia that foreshadows more certain destruction to our life and future than any nuclear warhead. There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future."

—Saul D. Alinsky, from Rules for Radicals (p xxvi)

Alan W. Watts: "To pursue the future..."

"To pursue the future is to pursue a constantly retreating phantom and the faster you chase it, the faster it runs."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity