The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Life is a culmination of the past an awareness of the present an indication of a future beyond knowledge the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Most people are prisoners thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present and the present is where everything begins.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

The future is purchased by the present.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils but the present are commonly too hard for it.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past present and future state and at others whom it affects and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.