Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

each generation has to create the image of God that works for it.

The problems differ from generation to generation, but the qualities needed to solve them remain unchanged from world’s end to world’s end

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The chief duty of every new age is to upraise new men to determine its liberties, to lead it towards material success- to rend the rusty padlocks and chains of dead custom that always prevent healthy expansion. Theories and ideas that may have meant life and hope and freedom for our ancestors may now mean destruction, slavery, and dishonor to us!

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

The next generation never learns anything from the previous one until it’s brought home with a hammer. I’ve wondered why the next generation can’t profit from the generation before but they never do until they get knocked in the head by experience.

Today our challenge is to both imagine and create the new technologies that can make the 21st century more peaceful and prosperous than the 20th.

The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

While in the past I would encounter problems, figure out their causes, and design my own ways to get around them, others who think differently than I do will make different diagnoses and designs. My job as mentor was to help them be successful at that.

No child is born filled with hate. No child is born crippled by fear. No child is born inflamed by rage. Each life is a chance to make things better. Each generation has a chance to do things better. This is our time, our turn, our chance. Let's do better.