As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.