“The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.”

“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”

“ We are the creators of our future and the victims of our past”

“We are all the product of our past and the perception of our future.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”