Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.
Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
You can never be happy if you're trapped in the past and fearful of the future. Living in the present is the only way to be happy.
Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them.
The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.
Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.
The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching in 2000 to demand the government say sorry for past injustices.
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
