“Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt”

“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”

“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

“The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions…. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.”

“The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”

“Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.”

“The real is the present, conceived not as a mathematical point between the present and the past, but as the union of present and past in a duration or permanence that is at the same time change. Thus the past as past and the future as future do not exist at all, but are purely ideal; the past as living in the present and the future as germinating in the present are wholly real and indeed are just the present itself. It is because of the presence of these two elements in the present… that the present is a concrete and changing reality and not an empty mathematical point.”

“The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.”

“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”