“Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.”

“When you do what's important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are acceptable to you no matter what happens tomorrow.”

“The present doesn’t change the past. Is the fact that the past happened enough to make the present good? Is the past real? Was it real anymore?”

“If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.”

“The past is useful only insofar as it justifies the present; the present is not of value in itself or autonomous, but subject to the image of the past.”

“...it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...”