We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.