“Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?”

“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.”

“Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.”

“If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future.”

“It was as if he stopped time for them two weeks out of every year, cut them off from both the past and the future so that they had only this present in a brand-new place, this present in which her children sought the sight and the scent of her: a wonderful thing, when you noticed it. When the past and the future grew still enough to let you notice it. He did that for her. This man she'd married.”

“No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.”