Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past the present and the future that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past in complaining of the present in fearing future.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

We are perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures the worrying animal. We worry away our lives fearing the future discontent with the present unable to take in the idea of dying unable to sit still.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

In rising financial markets the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present but only for the future where streams of revenue play in his imagination.