“We should do nothing for revenge, but everything for security: nothing for the past; everything for the present and the future.”

“Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”

“…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”

“Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.”

“He who does not know the past can never understand the present, and he certainly can do nothing for the future.”

“The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.”