“I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.”
“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very same events. You cannot.”
“God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.”
“The Future is as avoidable as the past is alterable, for the latter is, after all, a consequence of the former: A combination of choice and fate.”
“The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.”
“To be honest, I consider my very sordid past a blessing; if only because it made my wonderful present - and my bright future - possible!”