You cannot dwell on the past. You have to focus on the future.

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.

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

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.

There are two systems, the past and the future. The present is only a painful transition. Which must triumph? The future, will it not? Yes indeed, the future! That is, intelligence, industry, and peace. The past was brute force, privilege, and ignorance. Each of our victories was a triumph for the ideas of the Revolution. Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets.