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.

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 we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.

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

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.