“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.”

“it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Luciensaid mildly, “that we can even have a future”

“The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?' 'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.”

“The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?”

“I believe the only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.”