“To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.”

“We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.”

“A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.”

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”

“There comes a time when a man has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning…. two very different paths… To be truly happy a man must live absolutely in the present. No thought of what has gone before and no thought of what lies ahead; but a for a life of meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.”

“In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.”