What surprises me most is "Man" because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn't enjoy the present; The result being he doesn't live in the present or the future; He lives as if he's never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.

The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law to our to-day.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.