“The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.”
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”
“The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.”
“History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. ”
“History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”--from Past Present and Future are One”