“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”

“To bond to any animal was to promise oneself that future pain”

“Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.”

“Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.”

“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

“You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done and behind us.”    He shook his head, slowly this time. “History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.” He smiled enigmatically. “The future is another kind of history.”

“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”