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

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

To bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a Nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, so I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Lust for the future, treasure the past.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.